Have you guys herd of a product called filter mags?

What it is is a magnet, an extremely powerful magnet that attaches to the outside of your oil filter and attracts metal particles as small as 2 microns, thats way smaller than what your oil filter can pickup. so it should help the oil filter be more effective at trapping things that would accelerate the wear of your engine.

The thing is our hondas have all aluminum engines, at least i know my D15B7 is all aluminum, so would it really do anything in an aluminum engine? I mean aluminum will not be attracted to a magnet, so what would there be for it to pick up?

Also are K&N oil filters really worth the additional cost, my friend says yes, I'm not sure. My Civ has 216 thousand miles on it and I'm trying to keep it running strong for a while. it runs great now, and I want to keep it that way. I always have run Castrol High Milage 5w30 and a Purolator Pure One oil filter and changemy oil between 3000 and 3500 miles. It currently does not lose any oil between changes! and we recently put a head gasket on it and the engine was very clean. I would not mind any suggestions that would increase change intervals, other than switching to synthetic.

-Mike-

1993 Honda Civic DX- 4dr. Auto. 1.5L D15B7 SOHC Non VTEC.

 

I have never heard of that, but there is a megnetic oil drain bolts you can buy which does the same thing. It just replaces your OEM bolt. And for the K&N filter, if you never had a problem with what your using now I would just stick with it, as long you do your reguler oil changes I dont see a point in spending more money for the K&N.

 

By service manual, you car requires oil changes every 7500 miles

And I would use OEM filter and OEM oil, if you really care about your car.

 

I have run the Mobil 5000 mile oil before and it seems fine, that was in my '94 Escort though, I did run 5k oil change intervals in it too, and it did fine. I was just thinking maybe since this things got such high mileage the high mileage oil might be a better choice, but is there really a difference?

I haven't herd of any reason to use honda oil and filters in it over any other brand... now I do know to use honda trans fluid, and honda P/S fluid though. I have just always used Mobil or Castrol oils, never fram oil filters, usually Purolator or Wix/Napa filters.

Thanks,

-Mike-