Are Walmart Mopar oil filters good?

partsmonsta said

You really hafta watch which oil filters you use these days. Fram, Wicks, K&N have all been bought out by foreign companies and turned to crap. Yes, even K&N is crap now. These foreign countries have cut corners to improve profits and ruined the original products, but they still look the same.

Coupla years ago there were some incidents in which Drag Racer's oil filters were exploding on top end runs and trashed the Cars.
Cheap oil filters in race cars is really a NO NO, nowadays. Nobody cared before because even the cheap ones had to pass US standards...not anymore.
No standards overseas.

I only run Moroso race filters on my Mopar engines. And only Cummins or Mopar filters on my Dodge Dually (cause Moroso does not make a Dually filter, that I know of).
I replaced all the Wicks I was using.

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I live in a country with plenty of standards european, US/SAE and british standards, so standards do exist outside of the US and in some cases they are stricter and better applied.

we both live in countries with lots of choice

I can buy decent quality or i can buy rubbish....its called freedom :)

on a race car id expect to use a Race filter
1) in theory it has a higher burst pressure rating
2) there is not much filtering going on, the media is made to be less restrictive, a less restrictive media is wider weave or mesh, maintains maximum flow but only stops the big bits

a race filter is not good for the street and a street filter therefore probably isn't that good for race situations, guess it depends on how "race" that motor is.

if you get your lube changed every month or 2 at a quick change lube shop, coffee with the lube change buddies whilst its done , the oil and the filter are designed and made for someone who does that religiously. neither need to last longer than a month or two.... both will pass standards.... but guys like us should know better than that...

Dave