BAD !!!! Napa Gold 1515 Oil Filter W.T.F.

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CHANGED oil on my 66 NewPort, last Sunday. and screwed on a NAPA 1515, and couldn't get OIL PRESSURE!Tried 3 times... Went with 20/50 instead of 10/40 Castrol added a bottle of Rislone,engine oil supplement, and 5 qts. of oil. Idled and nothing took off the NAPA, P.O.S., and went to the zone, [close], and got a MOBIL 1, screwed it on and 50 p.s.i. oil pressure, saturated both filter elements before install, plan to take it back to N.A.P.A. tomorrow, in the NewPort, tomorrow,this is the car your premium filter TRIED TO KILL... at the very least get my money back WITHOUT MY RECEIPT. ANY SUGGESSTIONS????
 
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There's really only a half dozen manufacturers making oil filters. NAPA is a Wix filter. I believe the Mobil One filter is a Champion.

There's a bunch of comparison studies out on the interwebs that you can search for and draw your own conclusions. Personally, I use the Wix/NAPA Gold filter on anything I change the oil on and my company car gets whatever the oil change place puts on. They all seem to work.
 
I've been to a couple of NHRA national events and seen Fram oil filters on Top Fuel dragsters grenade in to the air like it was shot out of a mortar. I have never used a Fram after seeing that....
 
I've seen those Fram filters launch 40 feet in the air....along with the oil. I've seen it happen twice in the last 10 years.
 
Had a Fram go bad on one of my DD'ers. Fortunately, Fram made good and covered the $4400.00 repair bill. This one seperated internally, there is an o ring between the paper filter element, and the metal casing. This seperated and the o ring went up to the head throwing a CEL. "Exploratory surgery" was required to to find the problem. While I believe Fram to be a stand up type of company, I use Wix now.
 
I use Wix but I'm sure all the manufacturers let a bad one slip through every once in a while. How many filters do you think get made everyday?
 
post this topic on any board and you'll get the same responses...of 19 years being on Mopar and C body message boards the masses always say WIX
 
fram's qt has went down the drain, i've always used wix/napa when i was changine the oil on my dd and tried to put on my napa filter, it wouldn't screw on >_< no matter how hard i tried. manufacturing defect. went to o'reily and got the wix. but there plenty of other filters out there.
 
Each manufacturer has a premium filter. What matter is the filter media (measured in microns) that it's constructed with. Wix doesn't make a super filter that is significantly any different than the rest.
 
About ten years ago, I had a Fram split on a car I had just bought. I was driving and suddenly smelled oil. The immediate cloud of oil smoke and the oil light were not good signs. The Fram split right at the base of the housing, and it went about 2/3 of the way around the filter base. No engine damage, as I shut things off within about three seconds of the oil filter self-destructing.

From that point on, I've used mostly WIX, but have used Mopar, Purolator and Motorcraft, too.
 
I use Mopar oil filter's on my C's and Purolator Pure One or Mobil One filters on everything else. Never had a problem with any of those.
 
After 45 plus years of about all types of automotive service under my belt, from back yard, pro shop, dealership, prototype/advance product and many levels of racing programs behind me. I have used about every brand filter out there. The ONLY filter that has NEVER failed me is a Fram.
Not that they are superior to the others, but the others, including WIX, are really not superior to Fram. Any filter that has been in service over 5000 miles is prone to fail.
 
I have always tried to use a better grade filter when available. On my high performance stuff with higher oil pressure more so. I run synthetic in my DDs, so a few more bucks to go 10k miles isn't a huge deal.The Fram racing filters seem to be well built.
 
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