TRD premium oil filter vs Amsoil oil filter

Both filters are dangerously bad, because they have a duplicate metal center tube that overlaps with the existing tube in your filter cap.

 

how bout this

you figure out a bigger oil filter that fits with the same specifications like internal bypass valve

and share that

like what people have been doing forever with every other car

 

^Until Toyota decided to adopt the cartridge filter design, so you're constrained in filter size, and the bypass valve is in the filter cap.

You can spend a few hundred bucks on a Baxter spin-on adapter and use the larger 2nd gen YZZD3 filters, but why?

 

the YZZD3 is small

would be cool if a bigger one fits

why? Same reason everyone does it on every other car.
More filtration media. More oil capacity.

since you mention 2nd gen, 2nd gen oil capacity is 5.5qt. That seems pretty small considering other V6’s that are smaller displacement not being used for off roading, weight, or towing get 7.2qts.

another example
B6 A4 1.8T AMB
everyone puts bigger filters that I believe up their oil capacity from 4.5 to 4.8qt. For the same filter price.

 

^Only reason for more oil capacity is for cooling. If the oil doesn't overheat with the existing oil pan and coolant heat exchanger design, there's no benefit to more oil. Toyota goes out of its way to design engines that don't heat oil up as much, so they can get away with progressively lower-viscosity oil - 0W20, 0W16, and soon 0W8, to improve fuel economy.