ACDelco Oil Filter UPF63R Cut Open vs. Wix Oil Filter WL10255 Cut Open

okay today we're going to look at the ac delco ultraguard gold oil filter number upf63r and the wix oil filter number wl10255 and i got both of these at rock auto the ac delco cost seven dollars and seventeen cents plus shipping and the wicks cost four dollars and ninety six cents plus shipping but you'll be able to find these cheaper somewhere else and these two are gonna duke it out could get ugly folks and when the dust clears we'll see who the winner is so let's get started [Music] [Applause] okay let's start with the ac delco there really isn't anything important on this box except for they got an address here that's all there really nothing else is really important on here so let's take a look at her and we got date code i believe this is a date code right here two one two nine three af product of usa this is sticker she has six inlet holes metal core with louvers and it looks to be a bypass valve down below this looks to be a nitro rubber gasket which comes off pretty easy pretty thick let's check out the threads here's a lot of grooves there it's about five yeah that all looks good okay let's look at the wicks and the wicks also really didn't have nothing on the box except for right here man humble other than that there's really not much on here nothing important anyways okay day code 10 27 21 this is a sticker made in mexico eight inlet holes looks like a silicon a drain back valve metal core louvers bypass valve down below and also a lot of grooves there's probably about four or five there this looks to be a natural rubber gasket which is also pretty thick comes up about the same fairly easy let's compare these two let's see yeah the ac delta sticks out a little more than the wicks wix has bigger inlet holes and more of them well they may be the same size but there's more of them i say we open up these two filters and uh see what's inside okay here they are cut open let's get their weight so start with the wicks the wicks weighs 289 grams ac delco weighs 362 grams check out the base plates the wicks weighs 110 grams and the ac delco weighs 159 grams and a little bit more let's see why okay we got okay an extra thread there at least one extra groove and as you can see here it's got more depth see the inlet holes it's pretty thick there whereas the wicks ain't as thick so the ac delco's got like a heavier duty base plate it's also got less holes less inlet holes they both look you know they're well made let's see the wix has a silicon and drain back valve design here pretty nice today's well comes off but earlier it was staying on there it's staying on there not holding it and ac delco got a nitro rubber and a drain bag valve which is done they're also pretty nice but it you know doesn't stay like the other one but covers the holes up nicely so these guys all both look nice okay let's get the filter elements the wicks is 92 grams [Music] and ac delco is 87 grams almost the same let's go with the acdelco first you got an inside seam right here and i counted 51 pleats and it has a micron rating of 98 at 25 to 30 microns but i don't know what the filter media is made out of i couldn't find anything information on that a little glue here a little excess glue here yeah you got your metal end caps a little space there not too bad overall the pleats look pretty pretty nicely spaced and let's look at the wicks you got a couple spaces here metal crimp seam metal end caps bypass valve right here with a setting of 22 psi and the wix is supposed to be enhanced cellulose with a micron rating of 99 at 23 microns yeah just got a couple spaces here and there otherwise it doesn't look too bad okay and what do they got inside of the cans we've got a coil spring for the wicks looks nice how much that way seven grams and the ac delco's got this combo leaf spring 10 grams pretty good size one yeah it's good in the cans let's get the let's get the weight on cans the wicks weighs 67 grams ac delco weighs 100 grams and you'll see why it's second here ac delco is 56 55 millimeters thick and the wicks is no it's it's less than that i was getting like 0.4 0.43 or something get another spot here because this might be yeah 0.45 millimeters thick so i mean 0.4 to 0.5 is pretty is average but you can tell the ac delco is a little bit beefier than the wicks because i mean both cans are the same same height pretty much and filter medias let's get these guys uh the wix oh this is the this is the ac delco i believe yeah this is ac delco 2.75 inches wide and the wicks 2.83 inches wide a little bit wider look at these guys side by side they're almost the same height looks just a little bit wider and wix has two extra pleats looks on my left acdelco on the right and you can tell when you put this little insert there come out the same look they almost look the same now let's cut them open and uh stretch them out see how long they are okay here they are stretched out and the ac delco filter is 44 inches long and the wix filter is 59.5 inches long the wix filter has almost 50 square inches more filter media okay let's get the thickness of these filter medias start with the ac delco 0.86 millimeters and the wicks is 0.81 millimeters let's take a look at these up close you're almost the same thickness okay which goes here yeah the wicks has a lot more filter media and i'll show you why in a second let's look at the rest of the filter here the center core is narrower on the wicks so the pleats are bigger pleats you can see the difference there works right here ac delco here now i heard the argument of filters with the coil springs we have less filter media but not between these two coil filters and so let's compare some differences they both got intercourse with louvers you got the coil spring you got this combo valve here with this kind of bypass valve i guess that's a matter of preference there silicon and drain back valve but this one's got the ac acdelco's got a beefier base plate but then the wick's got more inlet holes so i think i kind of would lean towards the wicks on this one in the cans the ac delco has a beefier can it's definitely thicker a little bit thicker it's a little beefier so i'd give that to the ac delco and the filter media i'd give to the wicks has uh almost 50 square inches more filter media oh and i want to go back and look at these seams again you got the crimp seam here which held out okay while cutting it and this one had the inside seam inside glued seam and so we got the spacer that makes them about even so what do you guys think about these filters please post your comments down below well i think i'll wrap this video up don't forget oil filter friday i open up a new automotive oil filter every friday on this youtube channel so if you like this video please hit that like button thanks for watching and take care the ac delco filter meteor weighs 17 grams the wix filter media weighs 25 grams you

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Length: 13min 41sec (821 seconds)

Published: Tue May 17 2022