[s-cars] Champion Racing RS6: Speaking of Fram Filters...

[Trevor Frank]

I knew a guy that worked on the albeit failed Porsche Indy car team.  It
was sponsored by Quakerstate, if memory serves.  They mentioned that
they spent a lot of time and money to put Red Line synthetic into the
Quakerstate bottles.  Apparently a common practice at the time for other
race teams that had similar sponsors.

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Kessel [mailto:igor at s-cars.org]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:32 PM
To: JShadzi at aol.com
Cc: Keith Maddock; quattro at audifans.com; s-car-list at audifans.com;
urq at audifans.com; Trevor Frank
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Champion Racing RS6: Speaking of Fram Filters...

JShadzi at aol.com wrote:
> The filter appeared to be exactly what you'd get over the counter,
plus companys like Fram don't usually tend to make different products
with the same exact part #, of course I can't say exactly for sure, but
there is no reason to think any different.
>
> Some of the failures of Fram filters I've heard of dealt with internal
failure of the element, not just "less than ideal" filtering, that the
filter failed in a fundamental way causing debris and pressure loss
inside the motor.
>
> Of course, most cars out there are running Fram filters as well, so
sponsorship may have something to do with it.
>
> Javad
>
>
>>What are the odds that the innards of the "Kragen Style Fram PH2870"
in that race car were the same as a "Kragen Style Fram PH2870" that one
of us mere mortals can buy?
>>
>>Also, with race engines that get rebuilt more often than most of us do
oil changes, how important is an oil filter anyway?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Keith
>>
>>Keith Maddock, TRW Automotive,  Koblenz, Germany
>>Slip Control Systems, Systems Design, Traction Control
>>+49 (0)261/ 895 2474    -   -   keith.maddock at trw.com
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>"Trevor Frank" <tfrank at symyx.com> 18:15:10 29.07.2003 >>>
>>
>>Sponsorship.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: JShadzi at aol.com [mailto:JShadzi at aol.com]
>>Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 6:48 PM
>>To: quattro at audifans.com; s-car-list at audifans.com; urq at audifans.com
>>Subject: [s-cars] Champion Racing RS6: Speaking of Fram Filters...
>>
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>>[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
>>Well, wonders never cease, today while pawing under the hood of a N.
>>American
>>Audi Sport/Champion Racing RS6, sure enough, there it was, your over
the
>>counter Kragen Style Fram PH2870, sitting as orange as can be.  Even
had
>>the high
>>performance "grip top" cannister...make your own conclusions.
>>
>>Javad

Fram's 2870 does no have an antidrain valve built-in. Utter junk, IMO.

--
Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros


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