Originally Posted by ben47
You ask WTF?
As mentioned before... Fram and STP sell regular quality filters. So does Mobil 1. They are all in the $10 - $11 range, but you get what you pay for. They are of lessor quality than the old OEM paper filters and not nearly as good as the newer fleece filter, which sell for $18.50 at the dealerships.
Remember, you're dealing with an engine that the manufacturer list oil change intervals at 7,000 miles, or whatever the FSS shows. A cheap paper filter will not hold up.
You want cheap? The Crossfire ain't. It is an expensive car to maintain from oil filters to tires and everything in between.
Ok, so let me get this straight...The extra $8.50 or so per oil change will make the difference in how long your "protection" lasts?? Gimmie a break. A micron is a micron. If the filter says down to "10" micron, well...Ok, so you may be right about the OEM paper filters and the new fleece filter being of higher quality. I don't know, but why couldn't you just use a high end Mobil-1/K&N filter with fully synthetic 5-30 (which doesn't break down) and change every 5,000 miles like I do on my daily
driver...
Believe me you would be fine if you did that.
I use the Mobil-1 or K&N filters on my race cars too! Never had an issue, even when the Cuda was spitting shavings of metal (for 2 years, lol) out in the pan/oil from a couple of rocker arms rubbing the wrong way and one or two cam lobes beginning to wipe. Of course that got an oil change about every 75-100 passes. I just had the motor out of the cuda and everything looked great for having over 1,500 runs on it. To each his own I suppose.
