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View Poll Results: What oil filter do you buy?
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Champion
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Kelly
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Tempest
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05-06-2009, 01:58 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Ottawa, ON
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What oil filter do you use?
Am interested in pros/cons, opinions on which of the brands of oil filters you use (Tempest, Champion, Kelly).
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Alfio
RV-9A Ottawa, Canada
First flight Dec. 18, 2008
> 1,000 hrs tach.
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05-06-2009, 03:51 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Reno NV
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What oil filter.........
Hey: Where do I vote for K&N HP 1002? Dan
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05-06-2009, 06:46 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Corvallis Oregon
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Whatever I can get
For the lowest price..Period!
Frank
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05-06-2009, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Huskerland, USA
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I like the idea of having a magnet in the Tempest, on the other hand most metal is gonna be non-ferrous.
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05-07-2009, 09:57 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Ottawa, ON
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Ooops
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Originally Posted by guccidude1
Hey: Where do I vote for K&N HP 1002? Dan
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Sorry 'bout that. Can't seem to modify the poll, now that it has started.
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Alfio
RV-9A Ottawa, Canada
First flight Dec. 18, 2008
> 1,000 hrs tach.
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05-11-2009, 08:41 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Ottawa, ON
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Why Champion?
As of today, about 2/3 of respondents selected Champion filters. Why? Better quality/features, brand name, recommended by their mechanics?
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Alfio
RV-9A Ottawa, Canada
First flight Dec. 18, 2008
> 1,000 hrs tach.
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05-11-2009, 02:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Lake St. Louis, MO.
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Breakfast of Champions
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Originally Posted by Lycosaurus
As of today, about 2/3 of respondents selected Champion filters. Why? ......
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You ask "why" 2/3 of the respondents to this poll chose Champion oil filters. Fair question. As for me, I do not begin to pretend to enlightened technical savvy in such matters. My RV's are fitted with Champion oil filters for two significant reasons. First: Champion is the oil filter Lycoming chooses to fit (and also include a spare) to its factory brand new engines. That fact speaks volumes and I am inclined to perceive as a de facto endorsement by Lycoming is there ever was one. Second: Van's uses and sells the Champion brand. While other builder's choice of oil filter may well be driven by price or (perceived) technical merit, in my case I happily defer to the vast and expert technical expertise of Lycoming Engines and the solid, sober business practices of Van's Aircraft.
http://www.vansaircraft.com/cgi-bin/...uct=oil-filter
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Rick Galati
RV6A N307R"Darla!"
RV-8 N308R "LuLu"
EAA Technical Counselor
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05-11-2009, 11:35 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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What Rick said!
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Originally Posted by Lycosaurus
As of today, about 2/3 of respondents selected Champion filters. Why? Better quality/features, brand name, recommended by their mechanics?
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What Rick said and the fact that I have been using Champion filters for 35 years on several airplanes with zero problems.
John Clark
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05-12-2009, 05:33 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Louisville, Ga
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Negative
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Originally Posted by frankh
For the lowest price..Period!
Frank
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This is one place that I don't ever scrimp on...only the best protection will do for me...cost be da**ed.
Regards,
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Pierre Smith
RV-10, 510 TT
RV6A (Sojourner) 180 HP, Catto 3 Bl (502Hrs), gone...and already missed
Air Tractor AT 502B PT 6-15 Sold
Air Tractor 402 PT-6-20 Sold
EAA Flight Advisor/CFI/Tech Counselor
Louisville, Ga
It's never skill or craftsmanship that completes airplanes, it's the will to do so,
Patrick Kenny, EAA 275132
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05-13-2009, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Roy, Utah
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The Champion rep at OSH said they would put a magnet inside the oil filter if they thought it was a good idea. Kind of a ballsy statement.
I bid on a case of West German oil filters at the Starman auction at Mesa AZ. I probably would've sold them and bought Champions had I won the auction.
Steve
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