HOW and WHY to relocate your OIL FILTER

On a stock engine with a stock exhaust manifold the exhaust manifold clears the oil filter without issues. But let s see what happens if we decide to modify this engine. Let s imagine we want to fit a different exhaust manifold with the goal of turbocharging the engine. In many cases clearance becomes a problem and the manifold is hits the oil filter. Even a shorter oil filter often doesn t help much and installing a turbo charger is simply impossible. The only solution in a scenario like this one to relocate our filter. In other words we remove our stock oil filter and mounting plate and replace with an oil filter relocation kit that allows us to put our filter pretty much anywhere we want to. An oil filter relocation kit consists of two main parts. One part goes onto your stock oil filter location. And the other part houses your oil filter on it s new location and then the two parts get connected to each other. Your stock mounting plate and oil filter are conn