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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:04 pm 
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my local ford dealer is selling the motorcraft oil filters for $5.50 each..
i usually buy 3 or 4 at a time...


Which dealer is that?

peterwarren special at smithfield nsw..


That's pretty good, I paid $10.90 for mine at Coventry's, W.A.

 

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:45 pm 
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peter warren at warrick farm also has them at $5.50 each
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:00 pm 
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peter warren at warrick farm also has them at $5.50 each


Nice.. too bad he's in NSW

 

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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 2:28 am 
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Ive been using the Drift ones since i got the EL, for one reason only. They have a nut welded on the end which makes it easy to remove :P sheer laziness really. Bit pricier tho, i think they're $15-20 each

Oh and its got a magnet in it to catch metal filings, always intended to cut one open to see what the magnet had on it. I initially got one after i got the head machined to catch any bits i missed when i cleaned the head. Just thought about it and its alloy, so magnet wouldn't do anything anyway :roll:
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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 4:35 pm 
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as above, genuine..... even though they are made in china now


thailand actually :D

 

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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 5:17 pm 
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yer i use k&n ones, they are pricey but i feel their better, after a few changes it cleaned up the oil in my ea with 180k. and the nut is handy as !

on the other side of the scale i was getting cooper z9's for $3 which was too good for me to turn down lol but they went up to around 5-6 and it broke the bank... lol

 

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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 6:47 pm 
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doesnt really matter which ones you use. Ive been told not to use the black ryco ones (like most things it depends on what horror stories you hear).

the z9 valvoline is the one thats on the shelves so its the one I use lol.

 

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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 6:53 pm 
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Ive been using the Drift ones since i got the EL, for one reason only. They have a nut welded on the end which makes it easy to remove :P sheer laziness really. Bit pricier tho, i think they're $15-20 each

Oh and its got a magnet in it to catch metal filings, always intended to cut one open to see what the magnet had on it. I initially got one after i got the head machined to catch any bits i missed when i cleaned the head. Just thought about it and its alloy, so magnet wouldn't do anything anyway :roll:


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yer i use k&n ones, they are pricey but i feel their better, after a few changes it cleaned up the oil in my ea with 180k. and the nut is handy as !

on the other side of the scale i was getting cooper z9's for $3 which was too good for me to turn down lol but they went up to around 5-6 and it broke the bank... lol


Both the DRIFT and K&N have magnets in them to catch shavings and filing, I sorta can't wait til my next service as i will cut the old filter in half and see if they do indeed have magnets and to see if there was metal in the oil?

 

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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:41 pm 
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i've thought about that, but i think by the time you see visible chunks of metal it would be too late. i think they're more for the finer particles.
but also i've thought that metal that fine in the oil probably wouldn't hurt, as long as theres no chance of it blocking any galleries. if the motor is old enough to have lost that much metal it could do with not loosing it completely and have it cycle back through maybe theoretically filling the micro gaps.

 

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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:50 pm 
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I usually use genuine ford/holden stuff.But at other times use ryco and repco.I pay $4.75 for AFL 1 filters.

 

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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:25 pm 
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I use Ryco Z9 Oil Filter's, I get them for $6.30.

I also couple it with Castrol Magnetec 10w40 as recommended on Castrol's own website.

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:02 pm 
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Froudey wrote:
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Ive been using the Drift ones since i got the EL, for one reason only. They have a nut welded on the end which makes it easy to remove :P sheer laziness really. Bit pricier tho, i think they're $15-20 each

Oh and its got a magnet in it to catch metal filings, always intended to cut one open to see what the magnet had on it. I initially got one after i got the head machined to catch any bits i missed when i cleaned the head. Just thought about it and its alloy, so magnet wouldn't do anything anyway :roll:


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yer i use k&n ones, they are pricey but i feel their better, after a few changes it cleaned up the oil in my ea with 180k. and the nut is handy as !

on the other side of the scale i was getting cooper z9's for $3 which was too good for me to turn down lol but they went up to around 5-6 and it broke the bank... lol


Both the DRIFT and K&N have magnets in them to catch shavings and filing, I sorta can't wait til my next service as i will cut the old filter in half and see if they do indeed have magnets and to see if there was metal in the oil?



Did you find any metal stuff inside?

 

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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:19 pm 
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what are peoples thought's on the reuseable ones at vpw.com?
good?, bad? do they filter down to the same as the paper ones? eg, 30 microns
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