my63vw

Looking for volkswagen pictures, specifically engine, i found that in a lot of them they had an oil filter, almost the same the military jeep i own has, so i started to look info about and discover that i was right.

The filter is what is called a bypass oil filter, it does not filter all of the oil all of the time, but does work to a degree, and of cuorse is better than nothing. They used to came in the old performance kits like the okrasa or the judson supercharger, with specific braket, hoses and conections for the aplication. Reading a litle bit more, i learned that the old porshes has something similar, and that the FRAM filter in Europe was blue and in the USA orange. Some people says that most of them are not correct, cause are a lot newer than the car, (the ones you can find are very often that way) a lot of times is like they say, but in my case, the one i buyed was a NOS (New Old Stock), and was manufactured on july 1964, my car is a 63, so i guess is good. (you can also buy a new repro from flat4, but i found mine less expensive and is NOS)

In my experience, i think is a good filter, with it you have 1/2 liter more oil, and it filter something, cause the engine originally doesnt came with one, the mesh it has at the botom is not enought to keep the tiny paticules that eventualy can damage your engine.

Two Original OLD Fram filters, blue (European) and Orange (USA)

And this one is my NOS filter.