How worried should I be about heat on the oil filter ?

[mtnmankev]

I recently had a shop fabricate a dual exhaust on my c-20, everything seemed fine, until now.
Had a short oil filter on the engine when he did the system.
I changed the oil and filter yesterday, and the long filter is about an inch away from the headpipe that drops down from the manifold.
Should i give up on having the great filtration and go back to the short ones?

 

[WP29P4A]

You could do a fiberglass wrap on the exhaust? The Jeep rock crawler with the Chevy V8 corvette engine I have been working on is a bit tight in the engine compartment, to keep the exhaust from over heating everything around it, we wrapped it the braided fiberglass exhaust wrap they sell at Summit racing. It works..

 

[Snoots]

Without a temp sensor there's no telling. Unless you sit in traffic for long periods I would think that air movement would keep you in the clear.

 

[Matt69olds]

You will be fine. The oil filter on my Olds is directly above the header collector, at most 3/4 inch. There is just enough room to unscrew the filter and slip it between the filter housing and the header. No way to change the oil without a little smoke on start up.

What little heat is radiated into the oil is minimal.

 

[AuroraGirl]

You will be fine. The oil filter on my Olds is directly above the header collector, at most 3/4 inch. There is just enough room to unscrew the filter and slip it between the filter housing and the header. No way to change the oil without a little smoke on start up.

What little heat is radiated into the oil is minimal.

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I recently had a shop fabricate a dual exhaust on my c-20, everything seemed fine, until now.
Had a short oil filter on the engine when he did the system.
I changed the oil and filter yesterday, and the long filter is about an inch away from the headpipe that drops down from the manifold.
Should i give up on having the great filtration and go back to the short ones?

if you wanted to add cooling(how do you use your truck) to engine oil, you can get a sandwich adapter in there, short filter(or use a non oem or different adapter) and run to a heatsink type loop or to an unused radiator side tank or put one in front of the condensor/rad and mitigate anything possibly heated. but I agree with the radiated heat thing, if it doesnt touch its not doing much, heat from road would be far higher. exhaust leaks could be bad, so maybe if its a metal that will corrode easily, keep eye on it. wrap too could help. at the last step, a custom heat shield could be made and bolted in it just cant touch something too hot

 

[LateOnTheBrakes]

Keep in mind that most turbochargers are oil fed and get to exhaust temperatures. As long as there is flow going through the system it should be fine.