this is true - especially for alot of race cars (i.e. nascar). The filter can
clog up with debris, and you can either let it be clogged, stopping oil flow
and starving the top of the engine - or you can bypass it and let it flow and
hope you make it to the finish line.
-Ryan
www.saturn.pair.com/ryanj.htm
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:18:36 -0600
From: "Linnhoff, Eric" <elinnhoff@smmc.saint-lukes.org>
Subject: RE: Fram Oil Filters
Okay, here's a question for all y'all. Why wouldn't you/we/I want our
street car's oil filter to have no bypass and run "full flow" all the time?
Especially if you're that meticulous (as I am and suspect the rest of you to
be as well) about your car maintainance schedule? I suspect, but am not
positive, the reason for the bypass to be when the filter gets totally
clogged with crud that oil will still flow through the system. Right?
Educate me a bit on the bypass sytem of an oil filter. Please.
Eric Linnhoff in KC
1998 Dodge Neon R/T
#69 STS #13 TLS
eric10mm@qni.com
ICQ#101282513
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