[Jake Raby]

The filter used for this is designed for no bypass.

This unit was developed in 2007 by yours truly, and has seen temperatures as low as -27F. It has also seen oil pressures to over 250 PSI.

To date, none of the recommended filters have been crushed from excess pressure.

That factory unit fails in a much different manner, as the spring weakens in the bypass, and you get very little filtration, as bypass oil goes straight through the filter, it is NOT returned to the sump. If the factory spring breaks, then none of the oil is filtered.

So far this year more than 1/2 of the cars that we've seen come in for an IMS Retrofit procedure had a failing spring, and 2 of them had bypasses that had failed completely.