reusable Oil Filters?
02-26-2008, 11:31 AM
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Those always sounded scary to me. How do you know that you get them completely clean and how well do they filter?
They remind me of K&N air filters, sure they flow more and are reusable but they don't filter nearly as well.
Filters are cheap insurance.
They remind me of K&N air filters, sure they flow more and are reusable but they don't filter nearly as well.
Filters are cheap insurance.
out and risk reintroducing the same 
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02-27-2008, 02:49 PM
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It would take 30 new cheap filers at $5 each to equal the cost of the reusable. Assuming oil changes right at 3000 miles, that's 90,000 miles to break even. Assuming oil changes every three months, that's 90 months, or 7.5 years to break even. Not worth it, even if it worked exactly as advertised, and with newer cars advertising longer oil change durations it would take even longer to break even.
02-27-2008, 03:33 PM
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They state that they accept higher pressure, and some offer up to 40 micron filtering...typically they are 25 microns tho. The slam to the replacable $5 ones is that they do not pass the oil through and their flow rate is too low, therefore the oil actually never gets filtered properly or not at all for a certain volume. I'm no engineer, but I did just spend more on my new setup than I did on my first home, so if u guys had told me it was something u all used I wuda considered it. I guess if it were possible that this piece cud extend the life of a new motor or hi-po motor my 15-20% it wud certainly make it worth while - but none of the one's I've seen have made that claim. 