Originally Posted By: Nyogtha
I could be termed an "old school guy", I owned & drove 225 slant 6, 383 HP, 400, 318, and 360 motors before getting the truck in my signature last year (new to me, 14,900 miles when I bought it).
Fram was a quality company when owned by Allied Signal. I've used their industrial filters for downstream finished products pipeline applications from their Facet branch. Looks like that's been spun off and merged with Peco now.
http://www.pecofacet.com/Markets/Oil-Gas
You can't argue with success, those filters and attention to detail maintenance have kept those robustly designed engines working well for decades. The OP even notes some are using discontinued models, some of them are stashers for decades too!
The only real reason I have a heightened sense of attention to engine filtration is my current truck turns cylinders on & off using solenoid valves with very fast cycles. While this engine produces more HP and torque than any other I've owned, it's also more sophisticated and my perception is the potential for trouble is greater.
My dad drove his '58 Desoto with an early hemi engine for well over 200k miles, gave it to an older cousin of mine who got another 100k miles out of it including a trip up & down Pike's Peak. A big old hunk of Detroit iron.
We ran what oil was on sale, lots of Texaco Havoline first in cardboard cans (in my memory as a kid), later in round plastic bottles, then he passed away before the rectangular plastic bottles came out. Lots of Pennzoil cardboard cans and some Quaker State cardboard cans & white round plastic bottles with the green logo, similar to the QS filters in appearance today. Well before I was driving age I was changing oil and going with dad to motor oil sales that had limits per customer so we could each ring up a case. Never needed a sophisticated filter to properly maintain those designs, got those on sale and sometimes with a rebate too (Western Auto was a great place for this, White's was kind of a second-tier spot, and sometimes places like Walgreens would have big sales on motor oil.)
Joining this site prods me to reflect on a lot of that stuff again, in a really good way.
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