These oil filter relocation kits will make changing your oil a snap.

Sometimes it seems that engineers intentionally design engines to be as hard to work on as possible. Take your oil filter, for example. Instead of the filter being mounted upright and in an easy to reach spot, it tends to be positioned in a narrow crevasse, hidden behind a bracket, and laying on its side. If you don't have oil dripping onto the block, crossmembers, suspension boots, and yourself when you when you unscrew the oil filter, consider yourself lucky.

The solution to the oil filter change problem is simple, and Trans-Dapt Performance Products has the solution with their oil filter relocation kits. These kits allow you to relocate your vehicle's oil filter to virtually any spot in your engine compartment. Just locate a sturdy spot in your engine compartment (firewall, fenderwell) and mount the horizontal oil filter base. Install the oil filter bypass adapter where the stock filter used to be, then run the two oil lines from the bypass adapter to the filter mounting base. Screw on your PH8A (or equivalent) oil filter (or filters, if you choose the dual filter model), and that's it. Next time you change the filter(s), it will be quicker, easier, and since the filters are mounted upright, there's no oil spillage.

To find out more about Trans-Dapt's oil filter relocation kits, visit www.tdperformance.com, or call 562-921-0404.