K&P Engineering 10/2009

K&P Engineering's high tech, billet aluminum reusable oil filter simply screws into place. It occupies the position formerly held by the stock oil filter. In the past, all of the space age filters used adapters or hoses, or some other means of getting the oil to the filter. Not here, it’s a direct replacement for the stock filter. There the resemblance ends.

K&P’s combination oil filter/oil cooler has seven times the filtration capacity of paper filters. The filter’s performance is rated ASTMF316 and the housing actually acts as an oil cooler. It also has magnetic pre-filtering to grab any stray ferrous particles that can damage a motor. The filter element is made from medical grade type 304 stainless steel Micronic filter cloth, a one inch square of this material flows a whopping 1.9 gallons of oil per minute at only one psi of pump pressure. Because of the very low internal pressure differential of the filter, oil pressure comes up more rapidly at startup than with any paper filter, and very little bypass oil reaches the motor during a cold start. How easy is it to install? It’s as easy as installing a stock oil filter. When its oil change time, simply clean the filter media, inspect it for damage and reuse.