i was looking around the net one day and i saw what looked like an insulater u would put around a soda can to keep the soda(beer) cold. but it had fins on it, and it claimed to help dissapate heat.

i forget where i saw it, does anybody know about these thngs?

 

r u saying to wrap the oil filter with that "cooler keeper" for beer cans and bottles on a oil filter????

 

heat sink on an oil filter??

it already has a heat exchanger on the oil filter...

 

I think Honda calls it a strainer. I know what OP is talkin about, but I couldn't find a picture. Looks like a slip-on heatsink.

 

this is something i'd like to see.

 

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they make a magnet version of this thing also.

very useless

consider this: most of your motor oil is being cooled at your oil pan, how well will your little oil filter mod will work? there's a exhaust manifold just beside the damn thing

 

thats exactly it, thanksfor the pic, i think there was an episode on the speed channel of one of the car shows that featured it, but i couldnt find it. on the show as i remembered on the show they claimed something like a 10 degree drop in oil temp.

ofcourse different cars may have different results, but as i remember its very cheap very light, i dont think it could hurt.

 

I like what Griots has better. It's an extrememly strong magnet that goes onto the filter and it holds all loose metal in the filter. I could see some degree of benefit from a product such as this.

 

doesnt seem like it would really be functional but cool design

 

looks like it would add to the heat, by just adding more metal to heat soak ....Not sure I would do this without seeing professional testing results that were actually believable.

 

It would be really trick if it was made of titanium.

The heat sinks are useless on a street car with an oil pan.

The magnets are also useless since oil pressure would negate any effects of a magnet building up metal particles.

 

Wouldn't the heat sink absorb more of the ambient heat coming from the header and the block (both of which are close to the stock filter location)?

Wouldn't this in turn heat up the oil coming through the filter more?

Just a thought.

 

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Good question but I would doubt it. There's enough room between the filter and headers to negate heat transfer. One would think the extra surface area created by the fins would promote cooling, however the cooling would be limited to ambient temps in the engine bay so if you're not running a header heat shield or a vented hood, your ambient underhood temps wont be low.