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OK, now fill the new filter with oil, and smear a little around the rubber seal. Install it medium hand-tight. Put the undertray back in place by hooking the front edge under the middle tray's back edge, and then loosely install the two center bolts to loosely support it. Put all the edge bolts in loosely, and then tighten them up, along with the center bolts.
Go up top and pour 5 quarts (including the oil you used to pre-fill the filter) into the oil filler. Start the car and take it off the ramps. Shut it off, clean up your tools, and then check the dipstick. Adjust as necessary, but in my case 5 total quarts was the joint.
Finally, there really is a huge difference between the nice JDM filter the car comes with (on the left, dented from removal) and the "regular old Toyota filter" on the right...
Anyway, this is most definitely something that anyone with even minimal mechanical skills could do. Took about 30 minutes, not including an hour of bull****ting in the middle with fellow Elise Talker "JD".
Hope this was helpful.
Cheers-
Johnny
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