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Here is the other big benifit it's cost this is also why it's so popular. For example on my Elgrand a VIC 226 cost me 968P at ACE hardware, and 8L of not even the best oil 1000P.
Doing oil changes every 5000KL 2000P + Labor so around 2300P
My bypass system inital cost was around 5000P for everything including the filters. Won't need to change my oil until at least 40000klm my vehicle burns extreamly clean do to the water injection, lpg, and Oil catch.
My bypass set up filters down to 2 microns effiecently that's VIC CANNOT filter down past 10 microns it's barely 39% effiecient at 20 microns on the second pass. That means it lets 61% of all contaminates circulate right back through your engine that are smaller than 20 microns. And at 10 microns it's letting 96% though because it's only 4% effiencent at 10 microns. Will you get a few 100000k out of that engine sure, will it have more wear than it would if you used a good filter absolutley.
At least the Bosch (made by purolator U.S) is 97.5 % efficient at 20 micron.
So 5000P investment saves me 14000P in oil and 6700P on filters and 1750 on labor. And tons of engine wear to boot.
So 5000P vs almost 22000P and thus one of the reasons Fleet vehicles run these systems.
Not to mention the enviromental savings for oil disposal, these means a lot less to be disposed of.
I plan to do a engine oil sample at the half way point and then at 40000k and mail them back to the states.
http://avt.inel.gov/pdf/oilbypass/oi...inalreport.pdf
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs...ACulpepper.pdf
http://www.kleenoil.ca/pdf/casestudy_CalArk.pdf
http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/PollutionPrev...fact-sheet.pdf
Let's go into the engine oil analysis part of it basically these are the chemicals they look at and what the values tell you about the health of your engine.
This is probably one of the best articles on what is tested in your oil and what these test show as far as wear goes.
http://avt.inel.gov/pdf/oilbypass/oi...s_testplan.pdf
Here's something you might get a kick out of and no it's not a joke they work extreamly well at filtering down even to 1 micron or less.
http://www.frantzoil.com/TOILETPAPER.html
http://www.cumminsforum.com/articles...ter/Page1.html
http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/ge...-filter-2.html
Crazy thing is they work better than any filter on the market as a bypass filter.