I have been doing my own oil changes for over 10 years. The best oil filter IMO you can buy is Wix/Napa Gold. Fram at one point in time used to be produced by a company named AlliedSignal and let me tell you they made excellent filters. After Fram was dumped off to Honeywell is when their quality gradually deteriorated. Run what you want, I am sure you will have no problems either way this is just how I view it.
Napa Gold/Wix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcJ0pp2pneY
Fram/Honda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRRgw4B7R-I
I cut a Honda aka Fram filter open a couple/few years back. At that time at least they really were then current Fram junk
If the length of time someone had been doing oil changes makes them an expert then I win, I've been doing them since the late 80s.
So far all anyone has told me is that when they cut open a Honda filter it looks like a Fram filter inside. But, unfortunately filters are not pieces of art and made to be looked at. They are to filter oil and no one has proved that the Honda filter filters to a sub standard level then a WIX, purlator, K&N or similar.
On the Mopar forums it was "cool" to bash the Mopar filters. Until I ran them 15,000mi with Mobil1 and my oil was just as clean as a 6,000mi oil change by performing a OA on samples. A BMW looks well built next to a Honda, but we all know which one has a better chance of going 300,000mi. You can't gauge how well something will do its job by looking at it, you have to test it.
Has anyone done that? I am asking because I have a Honda filter sitting on my tool box with my Accord at 20% oil life.
Jay