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Originally Posted by Ghostrider 310
I'm staying stock, the Porsche inserts (used to keep warranty in place) are excellent quality. They are very much the same as the inside of the disposables so IMO all you're really doing is creating more waste and making the oil change easier for yourself.
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First, the OEM filter is anything
but "excellent quality", and the internal components’ are not the same as aftermarket filters. Over the years, I do not know how many OEM cartridges we have taken out of engines where the cheap treated paper end cap had either torn around the center opening, or delaminated entirely at the glue line that attaches the end cap to the media, creating a pathway for the oil to circumvent the media without being filtered. The OEM media has a relatively lager pore diameter compared to other manufacturer’s, again allowing more debris to get by. The OEM canister is not setup for "full flow filtration", where
all the oil is filtered at
all times, and is plastic and damage prone from cracking or road debris impact.
The LN adaptor can use the Wix/NAPA Gold filter that has a full 30% finer pore diameter media that is held in place by crimped metal rather than glue. The filter is both "full flow" and oil volume flow rated way beyond what the M96/97 could ever generate. And these spin on filters cost about 1/3 what the OEM filters do, plus you can buy them just about anywhere.
If you don't want to switch to the spin on setup, look at the Wix/NAPA Gold replacement cartridge for the OEM filter; same media as the Wix spin on in a filter with molded on end caps and a support cage that totally eliminates the issues that the OEM unit have with the exception that oil can still totally by pass the filter because of the design of the OEM plastic housing.
Not all oil filters are created equal...................