GStwin.com GS500 Message Forum

Main Area => General GS500 Discussion => Topic started by: mes_423 on March 11, 2004, 10:43:56 PM

Title: spark plugs and oil filters??
Post by: mes_423 on March 11, 2004, 10:43:56 PM
do performance spark plugs and oil filters make a difference in the bikes performance?? :dunno:
Title: spark plugs and oil filters??
Post by: The Antibody on March 11, 2004, 10:46:32 PM
Spark plugs, perhaps a minute amount. Oil filter? Well... I can't see it improving performance. I guess you read that GREAT DEAL! post too. Sounds like someone trying to make a quick buck.

 -Anti
Title: spark plugs and oil filters??
Post by: The Antibody on March 11, 2004, 11:08:44 PM
I have a friend who used to be a motorcycle mechanic. I bought a WHICK oil filter. was told it was a great filter. My friend now tells me that I should really get a SUZUKI filter. He says it will be better for my bike. Is this true? I find it hard to believe, but I find it harder to believe that he would steer me wrong.

 -Anti
Title: spark plugs and oil filters??
Post by: Frost on March 11, 2004, 11:18:55 PM
and i also heard that FRAM filter sucks...

what makes an oil filter a bad filter??
Title: spark plugs and oil filters??
Post by: Maniac on March 12, 2004, 07:17:01 AM
I've heard that about FRAM too. Apparently FRAM filters are held together with cardboard end-pieces on the filter element, when most other decent ones are held together with metal.

Of course, I hear the open-element Frams are metal, so dunno if it still applies. I just got a K&N filter for my bike, seems to be really nicely assembled.
Title: spark plugs and oil filters??
Post by: jake42 on March 12, 2004, 07:51:58 AM
i have a fram in mine right now. don't kow what it will look like when i take it out.  a filter is a filter is a filter right?

jake