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The reason of going with the Prova filter is the simple fact of how high quality they are.
Subaru USA and Subaru Japan have different oil filters, the OEM filters that come on the cars are the super nice Subaru Japan filter. When you go to the dealer Subaru North America sells the cheap Fram made oil filters which are not nearly as nice of quality.
This was something that Subaru did a few years ago (and Im sure most North American dealers such as Toyota, Honda, ect to cut cost). It has been heavily gone over in the Subaru community, and the easy way to tell is the OEM subaru filters in NA are Blue, where the Japanese made are Black.
The filters that come on the cars look identical to the 2002-2005 WRX oil filters. If you look at the speed hunters coverage of the BRZ STi concept, that car has the smaller STi 2004+ oil filter. The smaller filters where used on those cars just for clearance reasons as the older WRX filters wouldnt fit, however they both performed just as well even with the size difference.
Kirill
RallySportDirect.com
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