Fl 2087 damaged?

[MAGS1]

Why would Ford switch to this design? We can only guess. My guess is cost savings.

Makes sense. However, I would assume that an increase in production costs would get passed along to the consumer. And one would expect that the owners of these cars would gladly pay a little extra for a proper filter that rectified a known prior issue vs paying $20-$25k for a replacement engine due to the failure of said filter. And if they’re using them in the GT500’s as well, you’ve got that many more vehicles to support, so it seems like there should be enough production scale there to keep costs reasonable.

But I’m sure some accountant somewhere in Detroit is driving the decision like usual, not the guys/gals that engineered it.

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[galaxy]

Welp...guess I'll just have to keep using my Amsoil filter that has alwasy had a synthetic media and has always had a steel wire mesh on the inside of the media, and will continue to have the rubber end caps. Yeeessss yes, it has the plastic inner core piece, but, it is what it is.

 

[CANTWN4LSN]

Understand the idea of paying attention to changes but sometimes there is a tendency to perhaps worry too much? With so many 2062s used for over a year with only rare failure before switching to the 2087 with ?no failures to now a 2087A (which is not the 2062) and quite certain was evaluated before release for use on this engine, I'm not going to worry until I need to.

 

[pilotgore]

Welp...guess I'll just have to keep using my Amsoil filter that has alwasy had a synthetic media and has always had a steel wire mesh on the inside of the media, and will continue to have the rubber end caps. Yeeessss yes, it has the plastic inner core piece, but, it is what it is.

Bite your tongue!!!

 

[luca1290]

Understand the idea of paying attention to changes but sometimes there is a tendency to perhaps worry too much? With so many 2062s used for over a year with only rare failure before switching to the 2087 with ?no failures to now a 2087A (which is not the 2062) and quite certain was evaluated before release for use on this engine, I'm not going to worry until I need to.

This, what I meant is that there are so many things to consider in the design of a filter. And we may not know all of the story / details.

The porosity of the paper media used.
It's durability and resistance to pressure differential of the paper media.
The pressure the relieve valve is, correlated to the paper and plastic type. Both of them well may be different from the previous filter even if they look very similar.
For what we know, the crushed filter may well be because somebody revved their engines when too cold, with an oil too cold and crushed them because made them work out of their optimal conditions.

There are a lot of these engines around, and if Ford implemented such a change they probably though about it.
Didn't expect such a strong reaction, apparently there is some fascination from filters I'm not getting. But to each it's own.

 

[nmp1]

I wonder if the 2087-A is replacing the 2062 as it says ecoboost on the box like the 2062. Seems hypocritical to cancel the 2087 as the Shelby owners manual specifically say to run the 2087 only.

 

[Tomster]

I wonder if the 2087-A is replacing the 2062 as it says ecoboost on the box like the 2062. Seems hypocritical to cancel the 2087 as the Shelby owners manual specifically say to run the 2087 only.

If the filter spec changes, it will trigger a new manual version.

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