My father bought a 07 Camry, he bought a flat of toyota OEM filters, he was impressed with the OEM filter that came with new car, he WAS NOT impressed with the quality of the flat from Toyota, no comparison in quality. He ran one of these OEM filters (bought at toyata service desk) in one OCI, my brother tore it apart after, the filter media was clean, the bypass area and tunnel area did show some soot, the oil was only hitting the bypass area.
My father has the toyota filters and wont give them away because his concience would bother him if someone used that junk on thier Toyota. Now he uses nothing but Baldwin after my brother tore a Baldwin apart after the next Camry OCI. The oil actually flowed thru the Balwin media rather than just the bypass, the Badwin was pretty much same size as OEM Toyota.
The comfort we get in Baldwin is that most their filters have a bypass of 14 - 20 lbs per sq in their OEM filter replacement that call for 8-11 OEM, this obviously means the oil flows thru Balwin media and not just the bypass, my brother found this out first hand. I assume that if a Baldwin filter has a higher bypass setting of 14-20 which is made for a OEM application filter which is only 8-11 then the Baldwin filter media gets a chance to actually work.
My cheap off shore Nissan OEM garbage filters were doing exactly the same thing in only flowing the bypass, now my baldwins are filtering oil with the media with real flow, there is something to this IMO.
I greatly appreciate Balwin, one can email Balwin and get the ABSOLUTE Beta readings of each filter, find your filter needs in Balwin and send the numbers to Balwin via email and they give absolute beta ratios, this is real ratings. Baldwin are excellent in this service, I have Absolute beta on every baldwin I use, to note for example, a B11 Balwin for a Duramax (I got one for a customer's Durarmax recently) has a Absolute Beta of 22 for a $8.75 Baldwin filter, the Champion made AC Delco filter for $13.00 is an absolute beta of 40, many people buy a Baldwin B11 filter for their Duramax because of extreme 100 psi flow cold, the baldwin filter is much strong than the AC Delco Champion made one. My cummins Baldwin B339 in the lowest line Baldwin for my cummin, it has absolute Beta of 30, I have to buy a Strata Pore Fleetguard at $6.00 more to meet that Beta ratio. My family are doing our homework on pricing and quality in Baldwin.
Balwin also uses a syn blend media in smaller filters, they do offer full syn in larger filters, Baldwin uses syn blend media in smaller filters because they believe full syn media may have structural problems in tight casings, may be something to that in thier research.
Road King, compare a Baldwin in price and construction, tear them apart after each OCI as my brother did, ( he is a heavy duty and light duty ticketed mechanic). He has torn apart other filters and researched their absolute beta readings, everything comes up Baldwin in price, beta and construction. It is all my large family will use on every thing we drive after his research and experiments. My father's B37 Baldwin for his toyota is $4.00 less than Toyota OEM, My B1402 Baldwin is $4.00 less than Nissan OEM, that Nissan filter is cardboard [censored].
I can buy a B2-HPG Baldwin full syn media filter to fit my old 87 Nissan truck, this is a huge filter for a ford PH8 that will give me great cold weather flow and filtration, I will run it all winter with 0-30 XD3 syn HDEO and this filter is $11.00, less money than a micro piece of junk OEM Nissan filter which is 2 5/8" X 2 1/2", geeeeese I wonder why only the bypass works on these tonka toy filters with only a 8-11 bypass???? This Baldwin B2-HPG actually has a front bypass of 8 but with the large filter syn media the oil will actually flow thru the syn media, thus the front low bypass is nearly a mute point in such a quality filter.
I have the absolute beta on my hardrive for this B2-HPG, this filter is actually made for both hydraulic and oil applications, anything in hydraulic application is quality to meet that standard, anyone with ford engines this is a great deal for any old Nissan or Ford needing a ph8 size filter.
I am rambling so ending now, I am not a baldwin sales man, but I carry one of the Baldwin filters which was we tore appart in a plastic container to show all my customers than great construction of these Baldwins, even the machining on the thread of the Balwin are polished and refined with great care and it is NOT Denso or off shore cheap cardboard [censored], IT IS AMERICAN quality.
Cyprs
