Originally Posted By: jcwit
Engineer, get a rattle can of orange paint and spray it orange, I bet you can't tell the difference between the two filters.
Ya, I know, you'll need to ask which brand of orange spray paint is better, and which will hold up better to the heat of your engine, and, and, and, and,and............................................................................................................................
Reminds me of guitar players who ask endless questions about how to get some guitar hero's electric guitar tone. You wouldn't believe how much garbage is sold to idiots under the slogan, "tempting the mindless with the useless." The answer is you can't. The answer to getting better tone is to PLAY BETTER. It's simple but some people want tone in a box they can buy from Guitar Center. Playing better and experience never occurs to them. Experience (and the player's ears) is what determines what is "better," and in the same vein, experience is what tells an individual user of (enter product type here) is better.
So engineer20, DYOFDW and quit looking for answers no one can give you. Change your oil. Change your filter. If you are so inclined, cut the filter, take photos of the filter, no matter the condition and report back. But asking pointless questions in innumerable threads about nothing will not net you the information you want/need. The only thing that will do that is experience. Get out there and do it. Trust your experience, internet goobers, no matter how well-intentioned, are still internet goobers (I'm one of them!) and nothing they tell you has any value to YOUR situation. Only you can determine what's best for you. That's it.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.