What Oil And Filter Are You Using And Why?

[john]

What oil and filter are you using and why?

I was told to only use a mitsu filter by several people. Why is this??? The napa filter I have on my car is larger than the stocker. Why would we want a smaller filter? How is a mitsu oil filter better on lifter tick? I dont see how this works as it only filters the oil. Does it let more through?

Thanks in advance, John.

[CVD]

use any filter you want. just change it when its dirty. my mitsu filters keep the oil clean about 1000 miles longer than a napa filter.

its just an oil filter :stick:

[jd1828]

i did use fram filters just because they were the easiest to get. i switched to wix after i blew a hole in a fram.

[At-Least-It's-An-Evo]

Oil filter, what is that?

[Jana]

I use Napa Silver filter and Mobil 1 oil (synthetic) and change it every 3K - 3.5K miles.

[JiN]

Mitsu....just cuz.

[MustGoFaster]

Originally posted by DSMChick@Jan 4 2004, 06:53 PM
I use Napa Silver filter and Mobil 1 oil (synthetic) and change it every 3K - 3.5K miles.
Move to the Gold's, they ARE diffrent. Made by WIX. My new Grand Am has a light that turns on, it keeps track of temps, revs, milage ect. and according to other people normaly turns on in the 7k range. Oil has improved greatly since the 3k bench mark was set.

[Halon]

i use napa filters and napa oil. i heard a rumor about fram filters sumtimes causing higher oil pressure. So ya, plus napa is cheap and their oil is Valvoline just sold under their name, and im all about cheap. I'm not going to start using synthetic because i heard its a bad thing to start using using synthetic on a high mile car that hasn't been using synthetic in the past. And im sure the guy who owned this thing before me didn't use synthetic by the looks of things.

[AJ]

I just use a plastic bag wrapped around the hosuing.

[john]

That reminds me, should I swap my 1g to synthetic? It has somewhere around 130k miles.