Cut Open my PureOne (pics)....

drewski59 · 05-30-06, 05:17

I was bored, so I just cut open my used Purolator PureOne oil filter!

Looks really nice, with nice filter media and construction, as were my expectations.
This is after 3k/7 months of Mobil 1 5W-30, BTW...

Enjoy!

victory · 05-30-06, 05:19

Looks to me like you can go a little longer than 3K oil changes.

JDookie · 05-30-06, 05:22

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Originally Posted by victory

Looks to me like you can go a little longer than 3K oil changes.

I agree. Using Mobil 1, shouldn't you be able to go *at least* 5k miles on it??

drewski59 · 05-30-06, 05:34

Ha, yeah, I usually go for 5-6k, but after 7 months, I just got the itch to change it

flatstick · 05-30-06, 05:37

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Originally Posted by drewski59

Ha, yeah, I usually go for 5-6k, but after 7 months, I just got the itch to change it

Pure one are good filters. should see the inside of a Baldwin or WIX. those things are amazing.

Quickstrike · 05-30-06, 05:49

Why are you wearing gloves? Nothing like oil on bare skin

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I might have to buy some of those filters. I believe they came highly recommended on the Bobistheoilguy forums.

drewski59 · 05-30-06, 06:59

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Originally Posted by Quickstrike

Why are you wearing gloves? Nothing like oil on bare skin

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I might have to buy some of those filters. I believe they came highly recommended on the Bobistheoilguy forums.

I posted this same thread over there, right before this one!

And as for the Baldwin, they're pretty much the same as Hastings, which I currently have on my car. After the next oil change, I'll cut that one open also to compare.

Haven't gotten around to trying a WIX yet, maybe if they go on sale...according to BITOG, they have less filtering capacity but better flow than the PureOne...but here the WIX are $2 more, and I can't justify that really, with Purolators just being so darn good!

gmblack3a · 05-30-06, 07:02

I think the baldwin/hastings are supposed to have a little better flow and a little less filtering.

What car did you have that filter on?

victory · 05-30-06, 08:36

I use amsoil in my car with their EA oil filters. They say it's rated for 15K for my supercharged beast or 25K for a light duty vehicle. I'm really not afraid to go a year with the same fill of amsoil, but i'll be sending in an oil analysis just to make sure with the new car.

Purolator makes excellent fuel filters as well. A lot of guys on my car club forum picked up a couple MPG switching over. They have excelent flow characteristics.

JDookie · 05-30-06, 08:47

The next time you guys get a chance to go to your local NAPA, see if they offer a NAPA Racing filter for your car. The Racing filters are a much higher grade filter over and above their Gold filters. They have much higher flow rates (you can see this by looking at the 25% larger passage way ports), and the construction of the actual filter housing is a much thicker gauge metal too. These things are downright awesome, and they weren't priced bad either.

I used to buy Ford Racing filters for my supercharged mustang, but they were getting quite expensive, then one day someone recommended the NAPA Racing filter, which ended up being identical to the Ford Racing filter, but at half the price, and I never looked back.

drewski59 · 05-31-06, 06:40

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Originally Posted by gmblack3a

I think the baldwin/hastings are supposed to have a little better flow and a little less filtering.

What car did you have that filter on?

The Baldwin/Hastings filters are supposedly the best crafted(read: built well) out there, with Purolator coming in second, and WIX right behind that. Just craftsmenship, not flow or filtration ability. BITOG seems to think the PureOne probably has less flow...

BTW, this came off my 02 PT Cruiser

JDookie, aren't all of the NAPA filters made by WIX??

Setec Astronomy · 05-31-06, 07:01

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Originally Posted by drewski59

BITOG seems to think the PureOne probably has less flow...

I'm running the PureOne in a couple cars right now and the high pressure drop (lower flow) has me a little nervous. Did they ever test one of the new Mobil 1 filters (older Mobil1 had a little less filtration/little better flow than the PureOne in one of those tests)?

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Originally Posted by victory

Purolator makes excellent fuel filters as well. A lot of guys on my car club forum picked up a couple MPG switching over. They have excelent flow characteristics.

How does the flow characteristics of a fuel filter increase MPG? If it flowed more, you would use more gas...IF the gas usage was controlled by the fuel filter, which is isn't. In a modern car, fuel is pumped electrically up to the fuel rail, and any excess is continually recirculated to the tank...so theoretically if the filter had less resistance it would take less electricity to run the fuel pump...but if you use that logic, you would be able to tell you were getting better gas mileage with the radio off, etc.

Now if you said that your club buddies had clogged fuel filters, and replaced them, or did a back-to-back track run at WOT with the Purolator fuel filter against another, that I might believe (clogged/restrictive fuel filter not allowing the maximum fuel flow the engine is capable of burning), but I have never experienced a performance change from a fuel filter in 30 years of changing them.