Pure Power! Lifetime (?) Oil Filter for H-D, S & S and other V-Twin Motorcycles
Harley Oil & LubricationDiscuss Pure Power! Lifetime (?) Oil Filter for H-D, S & S and other V-Twin Motorcycles in the Harley Tech & Harley How-to forums; I came across this oil filter product ( www.gopurepower.com ) and it seems like a good thing. But when it claimed a horsepower boost (5+ hp) I thought "too good ...
Pure Power! Lifetime (?) Oil Filter for H-D, S & S and other V-Twin Motorcycles
I came across this oil filter product (www.gopurepower.com) and it seems like a good thing. But when it claimed a horsepower boost (5+ hp) I thought "too good to be true".
Has anyone had any experience with this product?
I'm going to past their claims below:
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American made using Aerospace technology and Certified 6061 T6 Forged Billet Aluminum CNC Machined Housing; 100% Full Flow THROUGH duplex woven, T304 Stainless Steel Filter Media, Viton O-rings and two rare earth magnets. The ByPass (Pressure Relieve Valve) is also made of 6061 T6. Dyno tests show an increase of 5 or more horsepower. Independent laboratory SAE Testing results: Increased Oil Flow 20+ gpm and Burst Test at 1,000 psi. Pure Power's unique oil filtration system is the ONLY cleanable/reusable oil filter proven to be so effective and reliable that it passed stringent F.A.A. testing with flying colors. Pure Power! has won several Major Industry Awards for its achievements in Design, Innovation and Performance. Both National and International Awards have been awarded for its Spin-on Direct Replacement; Drop-in Replacement and Unique Remote Oil Filters. Over 25,000 applications for foreign, domestic, gasoline, diesel, bio-diesel, autos, trucks, motorcycles, marine, off-road, racing, govenment fleets, military equipment, etc.
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199 bucks is alot, but could be worth it, IF it does all that it claims.
Posted by: MachineFLSTFI on Feb 14, 07 11:08:03 am
Oooh Wow, at first I thought you were talkin about their Air Filters which have actually been outlawed in the US cuz of the incredible, unbelievable power gains and deemed to unfair to other manufacturers... I got one however, smuggled in fron Turkey... Anyway, yes, this oil filter is all that and more... With a modification of it's computer chip, it monitors your air-fuel mixture, battery charge rate, tire air pressure, clutch cable lubrication(not the throttle cable though, hmmm), primary chain, rear belt or chain, and last but certainly not least, sends a GPS signal to your signifi%$@# other... It's worth 10 times 199.00...
It is to filter oil. That thing ain't likely to do a good enough job of that.
They claim up to 90% particle removal. Of what size and how many passes, they don't say. I can make a filter out of 2 sticks that will remove 100% of particles IF I get to pick the particles. (I pick big ones, btw)
Their media is woven 304. OK, its a screen. Maybe duplex means there are 2 layers. BTW, VW beetles, the old ones (mine was a 67), didn't have filters, they had screens. Wasn't a great idea then either.
Going from a 40 micron filter to a 30 can increase engine life , from particulate wear, by 50%, going to 15 microns can increase life 75%. (GM study)
Your hair is about 70 microns. You can't see below 40. Table salt is about 125.
I just dissected an industrial 10 micron filter yesterday. Examined it closely and under magnification. No simple screen will do what that thing did.
Want to have something no one else has, use this thing.
Want a good filter? Use an actual filter. HD makes 10 and 5 micron ratings, K&Ns are good., Pure One. Hell, even a Fram tough guard is pretty decent for a car/truck.
As for the magnets. An actual good idea. Radio shack sells them. Outside, bottom is where you want to put it. Or bust open an old hard drive.
As for it increasing power, I guess any paraisitic loss eliminated will do that. Pull your air filter too if you are that close.
I deal with dissecting hydraulic filters quite often. It's pretty cool to see the debris, determine the metal and then the source. The best thing is when a piece gets cross ways, but not through the filter media. It has then gone from a 40 micron to about a 20 or 30. The larger the micron, the less this will happen. I am not a fan of cleaning filters, and reassembling them. You'll have more time to ride, plus the contaminants contained in the filter (and the ones you may install while assembling!) can be banished to the trash can forever. The magnet is great.
What are the chances of a magnetized piece of metal dislodging from the magnetic clump of metal fuzz inside the filter and then traveling to the engine and sticking to the next convienent ferrous part?
I know that any ferrous material left in contact with a magnetic field will become magnetically charged itself. A very, very weak magnetic charge, but none the less magnetized.
Flashing the field coils on a generator is a perfect example of very weak residual magnetism at work.
Well, that's what I thought.
Thnx frisco-rigid for the humor.
Thank You everyone else for the insightful input.
I just saved 199 bucks.
I'll let the oil filter I use now (except new) do the oil "filtering". I'll get an oil cooler to cool the oil.
Now, if I can just find that magic pixie dust that cleans the bike and bumps up the horsepower 135% ... on demand, and I'll be good to go.
I do run 2 sets of magnets in all my sickles, seriously...
I drop 3 of the nickle sized ceramic mags in my alluminum oil-bag on the 120"... I reach in with a rod stick em, pull em out, clean em every oil change... A couple of the steel mags with a hole in the center and a steel wire holding em together go into the steel 93" shovel oil-bag... Since they hold to the steel bag I fashion a hook in the wire to grab em, also cleaned each oil change...
I drilled a hole in the bottom of the dip-stick for the 80" and slip 2 of those same steel mags with the hole in the center on the dip-stick and put a cotter pin through the drilled hole,,, cleaned each change...
The other set is 2 of the ceramic bar mags, 3/4" wide x 1 1/2" long, stuck to lowest part of the filters... I cut 1/2" wide "rubber-bands" out of an old 19" inner-tube which is just for extra holding to filter...
The mags in the oil-bags gets lotsa ferrous metal filings that do get through the filter media,, yup...
Oh, BTW,, another term for that horse-power pixie dust is Whiskey..!!
Frisco,
Thanks for the mag tips. Great ideas that I'm going to use.
And I'll be doing a double shot of Whiskey, in your honor, ... when I get back home from the ride.
Cheers All
disc8- the primary is the perfect example of what you are talking about, with the mags in the rotor. You can see metal adhered to several ferrous parts, and I think this is why.
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