I know you guys love pictures of used cheapo filters as much as I do, so I'm contributing a few.
The car is a 98 Integra GSR, about 139k miles on it now. I drive "spirited" which means it's not a rare occurrence when I rev the engine right up to the 8200 rpm cutoff... so lots of higher pressure oil situations. So I like to [censored] around in my ol' four banger, don't hold it against me.
Fram Extended Guard (OCOD) - about 6100 miles over about 6 months with Supertech 10w30. I'm quite happy with how this filter performed. The anti drain back valve seemed to perform really well; the filter was totally full and lots of oil poured out from above the filter when I removed it 3 hours after driving.
SuperTech - about 3400 miles over about 4 months with Supertech 10w30. This was an early change due to needing to swap out a bunch of gaskets to fix a few leaks. The oil was reused to top off my last change above at 3.0k and 4.5k (this engine burns off about a quart every 2k miles). The anti drain back valve on this one sucked; the filter was almost empty and no oil came out from above the filter only a couple hours after the engine was last running.
I also didn't like the cheap bypass valve on this one. It's a mechanism where the difference in oil pressure is supposed to press down on the center hole, letting oil stream by the cap. Seems too cheap even for my comfort level, especially the way I like to rev up the engine.
Supertechs are all over the chart though, the other smaller model that fits my car is a much better filter with a nice looking bypass and seemingly more solid construction (this one came of my friend's element, the ADBV performed much better as well):
while some others are even cheaper ecores, all for the same low price. At least frams are consistent.
In summary, seeing as I get almost all of my oil supplies at Walmart, I'm happy with and will continue to use Fram 'OCOD's. I'll pick and choose Supertechs based on the model. Next in though is a MicroGard cheapo I picked up somewhere along the line that looks exactly like the Fram pictured here, without the orange paint and grip tape. I'm planning on going 7500 miles with it, as per my car manual (I'm a reformed 3-4k oil changer, minus the honda suggested one filter for every two oil changes; with cheapos I'd rather just change it every time).
The car is a 98 Integra GSR, about 139k miles on it now. I drive "spirited" which means it's not a rare occurrence when I rev the engine right up to the 8200 rpm cutoff... so lots of higher pressure oil situations. So I like to [censored] around in my ol' four banger, don't hold it against me.
Fram Extended Guard (OCOD) - about 6100 miles over about 6 months with Supertech 10w30. I'm quite happy with how this filter performed. The anti drain back valve seemed to perform really well; the filter was totally full and lots of oil poured out from above the filter when I removed it 3 hours after driving.
SuperTech - about 3400 miles over about 4 months with Supertech 10w30. This was an early change due to needing to swap out a bunch of gaskets to fix a few leaks. The oil was reused to top off my last change above at 3.0k and 4.5k (this engine burns off about a quart every 2k miles). The anti drain back valve on this one sucked; the filter was almost empty and no oil came out from above the filter only a couple hours after the engine was last running.
I also didn't like the cheap bypass valve on this one. It's a mechanism where the difference in oil pressure is supposed to press down on the center hole, letting oil stream by the cap. Seems too cheap even for my comfort level, especially the way I like to rev up the engine.
Supertechs are all over the chart though, the other smaller model that fits my car is a much better filter with a nice looking bypass and seemingly more solid construction (this one came of my friend's element, the ADBV performed much better as well):
while some others are even cheaper ecores, all for the same low price. At least frams are consistent.
In summary, seeing as I get almost all of my oil supplies at Walmart, I'm happy with and will continue to use Fram 'OCOD's. I'll pick and choose Supertechs based on the model. Next in though is a MicroGard cheapo I picked up somewhere along the line that looks exactly like the Fram pictured here, without the orange paint and grip tape. I'm planning on going 7500 miles with it, as per my car manual (I'm a reformed 3-4k oil changer, minus the honda suggested one filter for every two oil changes; with cheapos I'd rather just change it every time).
