I know we have had this topic posted earlier, but man for a part that is going to removed in 2500-3000 miles it does not matter what it is, it will most likly be removed before it even has the chance to fail. Just because they are not some huge brand name does not mean they are peices of shit, there are way too many consumer groups and recall groups out there to prevent thrid party OEM parts to be poorly. The only instance i know of oli filters not working with motors is, on motorcycles, if you have a honda motorcycle and your engine fails and you have a fram filter on it, Honda will not honor the warrenty, and that is not because of the quality of the filter that is because of the design of honda's motor, and the generic fit of the oil filter. People here will probably give me shit for running penzoil of valvoline... My dad who is now 60 and has been working on cars, both street and race for the last 46 years and has never had a problem with cheap oil or oil filters. I have a honda and i run Valvoline in it, and my dads previous corvette and his current truck have run penzoil, no engine problems with either. In fact his truck (89 F-250 Desil) has 200,000 miles on it, still on the original clutch, and when we replaced the head gaskett, and removed the head the engine was in beautiful condition. i have yet to remove the head on my civic, but i bet the engine will be clean as phuck.