The sad thing is, 'X' company will produce an oil filter with a cheaper element for the first shift of the day, paint it orange, and adhere a FRAM sticker to it. When 2nd shift comes around, they paint them blue and give the filters a Valvoline sticker.

Just like any other huge manufacturing facility. Example: my local town has a facility that produces salads and dips (egg salad, noodle salad, chicken salad, etc.). Much like my previous speculation, this place will make a large batch of potato salad and give it a generic name (say, Food Lion brand) and mid day, they will change containers, raise the price, and give it a more well known name as well as supply it to major U.S. resturants.

So really, an oil filter is an oil filter. For day to day use, regular Valvoline 10W-30 should be way more than efficient.

 

most likely i will be running 5w30 unless the car seems to have problems with it. and yes i am leaning towards valvoline at the moment

 

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~rblander/oil_opinion.html

Fram is what it is. Decent.

WIX/NAPA/Purolator are good, made by same NC firm.

Kendall 10w-30 is great oil for 3800s...

 

i am using a v8