Shortest oil filter for 92 360 Magnum

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Brooks James

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Headers are closer to a normal filter than I would like.
I don't want an oil filter adapter or a remote filter setup
Some of you are maybe running a short filter ?
 
72bluNblu said:
The OE replacement Mopar oil filter is only 4" tall, so, how tall is your "normal" filter?

Also, Summit lists the specs for most of their oil filters...

DODGE 5.9L/360 Mopar small block Magnum Oil Filters Oiling Systems Engines & Components - Free Shipping on Orders Over $109 at Summit Racing
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I was looking at the Summit link you provided and noticed 6 of the 24 filters listed have no "Filter Bypass Relief Valves". Does this mean they are all 100% no bypass, and always filter all the oil all the time?

I always thought Jomar had the only filter that did that....
 
jbc426 said:
I was looking at the Summit link you provided and noticed 6 of the 24 filters listed have no "Filter Bypass Relief Valves". Does this mean they are all 100% no bypass, and always filter all the oil all the time?

I always thought Jomar had the only filter that did that....
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Looks like you just used the Summit website to sort by “no relief valve”.

First there’s only 5, because one of those is a multi-pack option for the same filter. The professional products filter claims “no unfiltered oil reaches the engine”. The Motorcraft filter says it doesn’t have a bypass in the specs, but says it does in the description. The other two manufacturers say nothing at all about a bypass other than the spec sheet used to sort the website results, the description mentions nothing about it.

So honestly I wouldn’t assume anything just based on that, the Professional Products one is the only one that claims anything different, and it’s not available anyway.
 
Brooks James said:
Headers are closer to a normal filter than I would like.
I don't want an oil filter adapter or a remote filter setup
Some of you are maybe running a short filter ?
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We sell tons of these to ford and chrysler guys with space limitations. It's a little over 3 inches tall. Chrysler and Ford SB Compatible Oil Filter - Space Saver Size
https://blueprintengines.com/produc...-space-saver-size?_pos=3&_sid=100e71ac0&_ss=r
https://blueprintengines.com/produc...-space-saver-size?_pos=3&_sid=100e71ac0&_ss=r
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Years ago, a buddy was showing me his 1986 GHLS that he bought new. It only had 5000 miles on it. I noticed that it had the tiniest oil filter I had ever seen on a Mopar. It was the same small 4 cylinder diameter, but because of the intercooler I think-the filter was only like 2 inches long. Not much of a filter, but they used what they had to. I think he said they called it the pancake filter.:lol:
 
Let's see some pictures of how close the headers are to the filter. I've run both the long and short filters on LA and Magnum engines without a 90* adapter and they weren't close enough for me to worry.
 
Johnny Mac said:
We sell tons of these to ford and chrysler guys with space limitations. It's a little over 3 inches tall. Chrysler and Ford SB Compatible Oil Filter - Space Saver Size
Chrysler and Ford SB Compatible Oil Filter - Space Saver Size
Chrysler and Ford SB Compatible Oil Filter - Space Saver Size
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That ^^^^^ is the case size I was going to recommend. There's a lawnmower filter that's that same case size with the Ford/Mopar o-ring and thread size, but I cannot remember the number, but that's basically it ^^^^^ I'd just get it from @Johnny Mac because you know it's gonna be a good filter.
 
There's enough room for a full size filter, but I wanted to reduce the distance of the filter from the header, to reduce heat transfer.
 
I was right. The GLHS used a SHORT filter. I guess Shelby originally used the Fram PH3512, which is 2.665 long and a replacement is the Wix, which is 2.483 long. So-anyone needing a real short filter here you go Wix 51335.
 
RustyRatRod said:
That ^^^^^ is the case size I was going to recommend. There's a lawnmower filter that's that same case size with the Ford/Mopar o-ring and thread size, but I cannot remember the number, but that's basically it ^^^^^ I'd just get it from @Johnny Mac because you know it's gonna be a good filter.
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That's the same as the Mopar 4105409 filter.
 
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