Does anyone make an oil filter relocation kit
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Le Mans Master
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From: Arizona
Does anyone make an oil filter relocation kit
My car is lowered and I have a curbed driveway & I scratch the bottom of my oil filter. The last thing I want to do is have a rapid oil evacuation drill in my driveway...
My thought was to relocate the oilfilter to the cove or some other safe place.
Please advise.
My thought was to relocate the oilfilter to the cove or some other safe place.
Please advise.
Burning Brakes
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From: MARRIOTTSVILLE MD
I believe FRAM makes one that might work.
Goto www.summitracing.com and do a search for oil filter
INTHERED
Goto www.summitracing.com and do a search for oil filter
INTHERED
Pro
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Just curious... since the bottom of the oil filter sits flush with the bottom of the oil pan, do you bottom out on your oil pan as well? Or are you running a non-stock filter that is taller and therefore hangs lower?
You must be LOW! Mine is dropped as low as it can go on the bolts and the rubber bushings were cut away completely. So I am very low, but don't ever recall bottoming out on the motor. My skid bars look nasty though!
You need to get your curb cut!
You must be LOW! Mine is dropped as low as it can go on the bolts and the rubber bushings were cut away completely. So I am very low, but don't ever recall bottoming out on the motor. My skid bars look nasty though!
You need to get your curb cut!
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Le Mans Master
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Im really not that low...all the way down on the front, and 3/4" in the rear.... my oilfilter sits a hair lower than my oil pan...I actually was thinking of selling the house because of that damn curb.
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Interesting. My car is as low as you can go (coilovers) and still drive on the street - and I never touch anything.
Do you have Rocker Rails and Frame Savers?
Do you have Rocker Rails and Frame Savers?
Le Mans Master
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From: Chandler AZ
Glenn,
I have some ideas... we should chat at lunch with Kevin if we get some time this week. Are you running an oil cooler? If not, you should probably think about it... and maybe we can tie it all together with a filter relocate.
Bill
I have some ideas... we should chat at lunch with Kevin if we get some time this week. Are you running an oil cooler? If not, you should probably think about it... and maybe we can tie it all together with a filter relocate.
Bill
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From: . Kona, HI. Orem, UT. PSL, FL
Do you use a K&N filter with the added easy removal "nut"? mine scraped on the steep angle driveway at my parents house so i switched to NAPA golds for when i put the car in thier garage. sadly i put it in thier garage in january and it hasnt come out since... 
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Le Mans Master
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That is actually the thought... It was pretty tight to put the oil cooler in Kevins car as he came off the oil lines for the turbos... I was thinking the same thought... Come off the oil filter fitting... go to a relocated filter, then through a cooler, then back....
Doing this will elminate my scraping too
Doing this will elminate my scraping too
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Just make sure you have enough oil pump to make the trip through all that plumbing. I have the Melling pump with the stiffest spring and it only produces ~40psi at hot idle including the round trip through the cooler at the front of the car. If you got too crazy with the plumbing you might end up with lower than desired oil pressure. My pressure is fine but this is the same pump that others are seeing much higher numbers with, so I know that all that 10an hose and the cooler and bends is robbing quite a bit of pressure (not that I need any more).
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Be carefull with some of the aftermarket filter relocation kits. They have small holes in the blocks and can starve the engine of the volume it needs on extended high rpm's.
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