LS engine oil filter options
 

The pan I am installing uses a Delco PF47 oil filter. [Chevy muscle car crate motor pan] What oil filter are some of you installing on your LS race engines?

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K&N or Wix XP

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A lot of the LS powered cars I've worked on have been using billet screen filters from K&P [not K&N] instead of the conventional paper filters . They are very compact .
I believe Ray Barton is a dealer.

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Do not use Wix filters I have had numerous collapse all have sent to Wix, Rep came to my home picked up the filters ,to be shipped Wix to be analyzed ,they were shipped back to me sent me, and sent me letter there was nothing wrong, just one small thing I cut all the filters apart before the Rep arrived to show him how the filters had collapsed before he took them he told me because I cut them apart there was little Wix could do , one could see it had collapsed with little or no oil flow Zero

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John, what filter are you using now?

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K&P Engineering from Ray Barton. MB

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Which Wix filter ?

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K&P Filter
We keep these in stock at SDPC Raceshop, best filter we have found.
We keep them with No-Bypass and with the By-Pass.
https://sdparts.com/i-24141019-kp-en...lications.html

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I used the Wix Xp 57060XP on my LS 3 this is the bad filter
Also PF48E
I am now using the K&N 2011 I call K&N the Guy told me that this filter was only made for Walmart , it has a higher flow using it now , no issue's so far

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I agree with the K&P, Ray Barton is a dealer.

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K&P all the way, Got mine from Barton

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Purchased 2 Wix filters last year,# 51040. when they arrived 1 was made in USA and the other made in China ! We use Wix on a fleet I work on and more of the filters are coming made in China. Look at what all the crate motors and Copos come with. Delco Blue. The Wix XP have more pressure drop across the filter. Just an observation.

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Note this list says "majority made in the US"
All I can say is read the box yourself.


https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/12/21...united-states/

https://www.machinerylubrication.com...ose-oil-filter

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We got our LS1 K&P filter from Scoggin Dickey, it came with socket installation tool and had free shipping. Also we had it in 2 days. They also had a great price. Tom

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Have a WIX filter 51061 on the shelf here. Says made in USA on box and made in Mexico on filter, junk?

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Never had a Wix filter failure on any vehicle that we have used from gas to diesel engines. These are trucks, RVs, street cars, and race cars, but we don't run street filters on our race cars either. We only use the "R" code Wix filters for our race cars.

There is a difference.

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NAPA Gold series of oil filters are also made by Wix.
As Kyle Ratcliff (Master Sheep Husbandry Expert), shares he does, I also use Wix on every application and never had an issue either.

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The Streetcar Wix filters are 21 micron where the "R" Race filers are 61.Race filters let more particles thru, but flow more and are designed for race application's. I think those Wix Race filters were originally developed for the Busch Series Cup cars back in the 80's and then later released to the general public..

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I run the Moroso 21151 pan and a K&N HP 1017 filter I really like being able to take it off with a socket and ratchet.
Does the KP have the hex on the bottom? Does it flow better than the K&N?
BTW great article in ND few yrs ago with David Rehr saying more concerned with flow than filtration on a race engine.

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So the 2011 Is not a HP2011?
I found a SO 2011 on WM,s website
Also is the 2011 22mmX1.5 ? Thanks