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custom made oil filter?
Posted: 15 Feb 2011 21:59
by twisty
received the following reply
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http://www.scottsperformance.com/produc ... PartType=3

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Dear Customer,
It depends on the filter but we should be able to do it. If you have a filter that you can send us we can take a look at it and let you know if we can do it.
Thank you,
Jake Hulsebus
Scotts Performance Products
2625 Honolulu Ave
Montrose, CA 91020
P: 818 248-6747
F: 818 248-4529
http://www.scottsonline.com
jake@scottsonline.com
Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 16 Feb 2011 00:24
by Huey
Hi Twisty,
Thanks for doing that leg work, I'm sure it will be useful to others as well...
Cheers
Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 16 Feb 2011 23:13
by twisty
i'll try contacting them to get a rough idea of prices i.e what do filters that they have already made sell for, before i send off a new filter.
trouble is it's one of those things, who would put money to mouth
would you
looking at their website the dearest filters seem to be $140 , at current exchange rates that approx £92 sterling.
Add postage and it would probably take at least a dozen oil changes to break even. But i suppose if i paid that kind of money to be able to keep the bike, i'd be happy knowing i'm not left with a lame duck.
But i'd need a sticker to let the world know i've got a speciallllllllll filter.
who is the expert

engineer on the forum that could tell us all if these would be practical and at least as equal to the paper filter.
pen to paper please
Right head gasket next

Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 16 Feb 2011 23:29
by Huey
I'm definately no engineer, but if the blurb about their filters on the website is anything to go on, they sound pretty good. Yes they will be expensive, but on the plus side you only have to pay for it once & who knows how hard it's going to be to get paper filters for MM bikes in the future...????
Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 17 Feb 2011 12:13
by twisty
Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 17 Feb 2011 23:20
by Huey
Hi Twisty,
I'll keep following this thread out of interest, but it doesn't look like this guy's even going to come back to me with a counter offer on the bike, so I might have been doing all my research for nothing.... Cheers
Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 18 Feb 2011 17:03
by jvhy
Hi!
If they can do it, I'll get one!
-Janne
Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 18 Feb 2011 17:06
by DaveH
Hi Twisty..
not looked in for a while ,...been ragging me off roader around the Peak ..
If you want definite numbers for the filters, I'll have one.. no intention of selling the Morini and the paper ones are a bloody rip off -

- paid twenty odd quid for the last one from NLM...
Dave H
BMW R1150GS
Benelli Tornado 900RS
Moto Morini Corsaro 1200
GasGas EC300

Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 18 Feb 2011 17:29
by twisty
if they can make a copy ,it will just be a case of the company will add it to their stocklist i'd presume.
What you really want is to get it posted to someone in the states to re-post on to uk to beat the duty charges.
The wife's posting the filter on Monday , not amused at losing a twenty quid filter that will probably be cut up into little bits for inspection, all in the name of

Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 22 Feb 2011 15:01
by rod100
I would buy one.
Assuming results of Twisty's investigation continue positive, Is there mileage in costing and then organising a combined order, assuming it might keep the development cost per person down right from the start? To cost it, we would need to get provisional orders from people and then ask how much that size batch would cost. Then, we could pay in advance into Twisty's bank account (did I really say that??

) and he could place the combined order. I would be happy to play 'banker' and 'postman' like this myself - but I'm just a new guy on the block. Alternatively maybe ask 3X spares dept if they would order a certain number and what kind of up front assurance they would first need of immediate sales to us (again, maybe payment in advance for a certain number). Of course, 3X would probably wish to make a small profit too.
Or wouldn't it make any difference if we ordered separately?
Just ideas.

Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 23 Feb 2011 04:01
by twisty
well the filter's in the post to them,a nice new sealed item

Re: custom made oil filter?
Posted: 08 Mar 2011 22:11
by twisty
new post started as scott products have informed that they can make a filter
