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Can I Use ANY Oil Filter with AMSOIL Synthetic Oil? |
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Yes, technically, you can use ANY oil filter in conjunction with AMSOIL Synthetic Oils. However, you might want to consider whether that is really in your best interests or not. It could likely end up costing you quite a bit more annually to use another brand filter. And, of course, there is always the issue of vehicle protection, which is an important consideration as well.Cellulose vs SyntheticYou see, most standard filters are cellulose based. Cellulose breaks down over time when in the presence of the contaminants generally found in used motor oil (such as acids from combustion by-products and water contamination, etc.).As a result, even if you weren't putting much mileage on your vehicle, an off-the-shelf oil filter (which is going to use either entirely cellulose media or at least partly cellulose media) should be changed at least every 4-6 months to be sure the cellulose media has not broken down (which would compromise the filtering ability of the media). Each time the filter is changed, oil is lost with the filter, so you have to top off the oil system, which adds expense to the filter change. Even though such an off-the-shelf filter might only cost a couple bucks, if you're using AMSOIL Synthetic Oil, the top-off oil will cost another couple bucks or so (depending upon the size of your filter), making each additional filter change about $4 or $5. In contrast, the AMSOIL Ea Oil Filter is changed only once each year (or every 25,000 miles), when the oil is changed. This is because it is COMPLETELY synthetic based media, which does not break down like cellulose media does. So, even though you'll probably pay $5 - $10 more for the AMSOIL filter than for a filter off the shelf of your local auto parts store, when you account for a filter change every 4 months (for best protection) you'll spend about as much anyway - not to mention wasting your time changing a filter when you don't have to. Efficiency is Very ImportantMoreover, the AMSOIL Ea Oil Filter is more efficient than any other filter on the market. Nobody else out there will give you an absolute efficiency rating for their oil filter. It gives you something concrete with which to nail them down. Instead, every company out there uses their own special "version" of a number of different industry tests to measure filtering efficiency. In this way, you can't compare to anyone else. An absolute efficiency rating is a simple way that filter efficiency can be compared.If you were to call and speak with a representative for any other oil filter manufacturer, you could ask for that number. Ask for the absolute efficiency rating of their oil filter. They HAVE the information. If they give it to you, you'll see that AMSOIL betters them by a wide margin. If they won't give it to you, it will be pretty obvious why. An AMSOIL Ea filter WILL protect your vehicle better than the other guys. In fact, in paper 881825 the Society of Automotive Engineers indicates that a joint study was performed between AC Spark Plug and Detroit Diesel Corp. The study found that finer oil filtration significantly reduced the rate of engine wear. According to the paper, the tests regarding engine wear within a diesel engine were performed using four levels of oil filtration. They chose filters whose efficiency rating was very high for particles of 40 micron, 15 micron, 8.5 micron and 7 micron sizes. The same was done for gasoline engines, except that the relative sizes were 40 microns, 30 microns, 25 microns and 15 microns. To make a long story short, the researchers had this to say: "Abrasive engine wear can be substantially reduced with an increase in filter single pass efficiency. Compared to a 40 micron filter, engine wear was reduced by 50 percent with 30 micron filtration. Likewise, wear was reduced by 70 percent with 15 micron filtration." The AMSOIL Ea Oil Filter has an ABSOLUTE efficiency rating of 15 microns. No matter what numbers any other oil filter manufacturer wants to throw at you, if you simply ask for the absolute efficiency of their filter NOBODY else can touch that number, which means that an AMSOIL Ea filter will significantly reduce engine wear, and isn't that one of the reasons you're using AMSOIL synthetic oil to begin with? So, again, I would say that, although ANY oil filter can be used, you'll end up better off by using the AMSOIL Ea Oil Filter. |
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