... My question is, can I add a regular filter and and a fine filter to make my own bypass system? ...

You can. ...but I don't know why you would for parallel flow. Series, maybe, to use the less expensive 20 as a prefilter the more expensive 2. For parallel, I'd just put (2) 2s.

Unless the head is some great deal, gives you some mounting advantage, or let's you get cheaper 2s due to the thread configuration, I'd skip it.

 

I currently run the Amsoil bypass system. The front filter is the full flow normal filter and the back filter is the bypass filter. I think I read that the head unit that the filters screw onto let's the oil run through the first filter as normal but there is a port in the head between the two filters that allows about 10% of the normal oil flow through the bypass filter.

Make sure the head unit you use does something to this effect or you may starve the engine of oil and do damage.

Only an opinion, good luck.

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I currently run the Amsoil bypass system. ...

... Make sure the head unit you use does something to this effect or you may starve the engine of oil and do damage. ...

If the system is a bypass system, how can it starve the engine of oil?

 

Thanks I will look I to your system

 

Read the op

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Rereading didn't help because the problem wasn't with what you wrote, it was with what Amsoil named the system.

On 6.0s, a "bypass" system processes only a fraction of the oil. That's pretty standard for naming conventions. I had to find it and look at the installation procedure to match what you said to the name that Amsoil gave it.

It's very cool. If I were Amsoil, though, I would've called it a "oil filtration replacement system with added bypass." Complicated, yes, but much more descriptive of what it actually does.

does your dual head with a full flow primary with a bypass tap into the oem filter location ?

Seems so. Here it is:

https://www.amsoil.com/shop/by-prod...by-pass-systems/by-pass/filters-and-mounts/ford-7-3l-dual-remote-bypass-system/

 

does your dual head with a full flow primary with a bypass tap into the oem filter location ?

 

thanks Pal

that's pretty much what i was guessing it was since "read the OP" was zero friggin help lol

 

The original post if...I read it right.... Said he wanted to use a dual filter mount, I had a remote filter system years back that ran two of the same filters on the same mount. The Amsoil uses a mount that uses the first part of the mount as the full flow filter and has a port that bleeds off 10% of the oil to flow through the bypass....but keeping the full flow at normal rate.

If I'm wrong...

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Your interpretation is right. At least as far as I can tell. But... unless the filter head is plumbed in to replace the main filter like yours *and* it's configured as a bypass, it's of limited usefulness.

Bypass systems (using the traditional naming convention) typically feed from the existing oil filter and return to someplace like the oil fill tube. A simple parallels dual head doesn't do much for anyone there.

I like the system that you have, fo' sho. I'd say it's the only way to go.

 

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I like the system I have and it's doing what it's designed to do. Take care!!

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