Samantha Reed

If your odometer has crossed 75,000 miles, you already know that engine oil alone is not enough. The filter working behind it has to trap more dirt, hold more contaminants, and stay primed through colder starts than it did when the car was new. After two months of testing and side-by-side comparison, our team landed … Read more

When I started wrenching on small-blocks in my dad’s garage two decades ago, the intake manifold question always boiled down to one thing: what kind of driving do I actually do? That answer still matters in , but the catalogue has exploded. You can buy a budget LS swap piece for a fraction of premium … Read more

I swapped my first disposable paper air filter back in 2003 and haven’t looked back since. After 20+ years of swapping cotton gauze and dry synthetic filters across daily drivers, a long-bed diesel, and a turbocharged project car, I know exactly which washable filters earn their keep and which ones are just expensive paper replacements. … Read more

If you have ever felt your engine running out of breath past 4,500 RPM, the bottleneck is almost always the same: the factory intake manifold. A performance intake manifold is the single biggest induction upgrade you can make after heads and a cam, and in our shop we have seen otherwise stock 350 HP builds … Read more

If you’ve ever climbed into a hot car on a July afternoon and immediately sneezed three times, you already understand why picking the best cabin air filters matters. That thin pleated rectangle behind your glove box is the only thing standing between your lungs and the cloud of pollen, dust, diesel soot and roadside particulates … Read more

The CARORY CF285 is the best overall carbon cabin air filter for most drivers in , and after three months of swapping eight filters through three different test vehicles, our team kept coming back to it as the everyday recommendation. Cabin air filters are one of the cheapest maintenance items on your car, but they … Read more

Your engine oil filter is the unsung hero of every oil change. It traps metal shavings, combustion byproducts, and carbon before they grind against bearings and piston rings. A weak filter shortens engine life; a great one quietly does its job for 20,000 miles between changes. After spending three months cutting open filters, comparing micron … Read more

After three months of pulling transmission pans, dropping fluid, and counting debris caught on magnets, our team narrowed down the best transmission filters worth your money in . We focused on real-world fitment for the transmissions that actually show up in driveways: GM 4L60E and 6L80, Ford E4OD/4R100, Chrysler NAG1, Honda/Acura automatics, Allison 1000 diesel … Read more

Two summers ago I helped a friend drop the pan on his 2007 Silverado with 180,000 miles on the clock. He had never touched the transmission fluid, and what we pulled out looked like cold coffee with glitter in it. The filter was so packed with clutch debris that the ATF barely trickled out when … Read more

A whining noise when you turn the wheel, a steering wheel that suddenly feels heavy at parking speeds, or a puddle of red fluid under the front of the car — any of those can ruin a Monday morning. Our team spent the last several months pulling failed pumps off Honda Civics, Jeep Grand Cherokees, … Read more