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Been brainstorming for months now and might be worse off because of it. Trying to increase our oil capacity by a bunch to lessen the need for an oil cooler. Have the Socal oil cooler delete already, going to remote mount oil filter, possibly two. I have seen the PPE remote mount, looks really nice($$$). I can get remote filter heads all day long on summit that will accept decently big filters but i just today got two heads and two filters from NAPA that hold at least a gallon of oil each. I planned on running a 20 micron prior to like a 5 micron. What i cant figure out is the 'bypass' stuff. Who can explain it to me. Do i want a bypass at all and if so, what psi and whatnot. It sounds like PPE's mount gets rid of the bypass idea, but their filter fitting limits the size i can get.
 
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You could just machine the and tap the block for a O Ring Boss AN fitting, or take apart the oil cooler and to the same(bolt on verse permanent) so you can get what ever size line you want and then it would be easy to put together any filter/oil cooler set up you want.
 
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04jimc said:
Been brainstorming for months now and might be worse off because of it. Trying to increase our oil capacity by a bunch to lessen the need for an oil cooler. Have the Socal oil cooler delete already, going to remote mount oil filter, possibly two. I have seen the PPE remote mount, looks really nice($$$). I can get remote filter heads all day long on summit that will accept decently big filters but i just today got two heads and two filters from NAPA that hold at least a gallon of oil each. I planned on running a 20 micron prior to like a 5 micron. What i cant figure out is the 'bypass' stuff. Who can explain it to me. Do i want a bypass at all and if so, what psi and whatnot. It sounds like PPE's mount gets rid of the bypass idea, but their filter fitting limits the size i can get.
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Is this for your puller or tow rig?
 
PureHybrid

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A pressure bypass, or a bypass filter setup?

Bypass filter you'd tee off and run a very tight micron filter that would return to the pan. It would only filter part of the oil, but what it does filter would be very clean.
 
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We cut the stock oil cooler off leaving the two holes exposed and then tap them for NPT/AN fittings. It still bolts to the block like factory, and makes for a nice remote mount piece. You can still use the factory coolant tube and oil cooler box, with the 90 piece to the adapter plate. You just need to fab a piece of sheet metal to cover the box where the oil cooler was removed.

Run the oil through your air/water system for cooling, no issues so far.
The Camaro is billet block/heads, we will be pulling from the pan, going through an ice water oil cooler, and pumped back into the pan for cooling.
 
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Just found out the Napa filter heads I got have a 100psi bypass so I returned them. The bypass thing is what I'm trying to understand whether or not it's needed. ??
 
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04jimc said:
Just found out the Napa filter heads I got have a 100psi bypass so I returned them. The bypass thing is what I'm trying to understand whether or not it's needed. ??
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If the filter becomes enough of a restriction, you'll blow it off the filter head or split it without a bypass. Bad side about the bypass is if it does open, all the crap that was making your filter bypass now gets free roam of your engine. So..., possibly blow a filter up and starve for oil psi until turned off, or send contaminants down stream if bypassed..
 
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RPM Motorsports said:
If the filter becomes enough of a restriction, you'll blow it off the filter head or split it without a bypass. Bad side about the bypass is if it does open, all the crap that was making your filter bypass now gets free roam of your engine. So..., possibly blow a filter up and starve for oil psi until turned off, or send contaminants down stream if bypassed..
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But if I'm thinking it will run at or above 100 psi at wot??
 
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04jimc said:
But if I'm thinking it will run at or above 100 psi at wot??
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Our runs about 90-95psi @ 4000 rpms down the track, drops to around 80 psi at 3000 rpms, cold start idle will see 100-110 depending on how cold. the OEM filter housing have a bypass, I don't know what it is set at but guessing less than 100 psi!
 
ikeG

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So if its bypassing a whole bunch already using stock filter head, that's makes me think get a filter head without a bypass. I change oil all the time in this thing, never really gets dirty. What ya think Caleb and Russ?
 
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Im expecting a quote on a dry sump kit today about 4-5 o'clock. I can text you what it would cost. I imagine pricey, maybe to pricey for myself. But I'm very curious about doing mine that way


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