A4 belly pan & Canton Mecca

["Frank Amoroso" <famoroso@sprintmail.com>]

If you were to consider this I would only recommend it in conjunction w/ a
Canton Mecca oil filter. Since you will not be changing the filter as often
you want one capable of extended change intervals.

For those of you who don't know Canton Mecca (CM) filters are the best.
Simple, isn't it.

Why haven't you heard of them then in the many threads that debate the
virtues / vices of all the filters you can get at your local autoparts
store? Because they cost $90.00 and most of the debate has regarded filters
costing 10% of that or less. The fully synthetic elements run about $12.00.

This may not be the best application for the A4 however as I believe the
filter location on the A4 is quite difficult to get to.

CM filters have a heavy duty machined aluminum housing with a removable
bottom cover that provides access to the removable full flow synthetic
filter. No bypass valve so it is always filtering, it does however have an
anti drainback valve, and is all sealed up using rubber O-rings. Very nice
piece, expensive, but very nice.

Find 'em in Racer's Wholesale. They also have high end fuel filters as well.

Frank--
'93 S4 with a, practice what you preach, CM oil filter.
-----Original Message-----
From: rramirez@salestar.com <rramirez@salestar.com>
To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>;
stephenm@ix.netcom.com <stephenm@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: A4 belly pan is Satan's work!


>     Steve,
>
>     be happy it's well attached.  95+ BMW M3s regularly lose theirs
>     because they are flimsily attached.  They break off if you sneeze on
>     it and BMW won't replace them.  Most of my fellow bimwads just leave
>     them off (I don't know if I ever had one on my 89 M3 but it's
>     definitely gone now.)
>
>     As far as suggestions, I'm not sure if you can access the oil filter
>     without taking the belly pan off but there is a product that sells for
>     about $50 that sucks the oil out the dipstick hole.  it's well known
>     in the BMW world because it's sold by one of the bigger mailorder
>     places, BMP Design (www.bmpd.com, I think)- I don't know who else
>     sells them.  It's a canister with a pump that you can use to create a
>     vacuum and then a tube that you slide into the dipstick tube.  It
>     takes a while to suck out all the oil but it's not "active" time, you
>     could go do something else.  I'm sure that if you were inventive, you
>     could devise something similar for less money.  It may not be perfect
>     but it's probably a decent alternative.
>
>     good luck,
>
>     rob
>     sorry for the BMW mentions- but they're still my first love...
>
>     >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>     P.S.  If anyone has come up with a trick to making this easier I'm
>     open to
>     suggestions.....
>