Low Profile Air Cleaner
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Heel & Toe
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From: Twentynine Palms CA
Low Profile Air Cleaner
The original carburetor on the 1972 Vette was shot so I bought an Edelbrock model 1406 carb which seemed to be taller than the original. I had to use an adapter for it to fit my engine block which made it sit another inch higher. So now I got like an inch maybe two inches from the top of the carb to the hood.
Anyone have any suggestions for a low profile air cleaner? I really don't feel like spending the money on a different carb.
Anyone have any suggestions for a low profile air cleaner? I really don't feel like spending the money on a different carb.
Le Mans Master
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From: Oxford MA-----You just lost the game!!!!
Well, if you're not into spending money, your best bet probably would have been to rebuild the original carb, but as they say, shoulda, woulda, coulda, right? Let's deal with the situation as it stands.
I have been looking into low profile air cleaners, because I want to install a carb spacer, and here is what I have found. It is advertized as sitting 2.563" above the flange where the air cleaner sits on the carb, and it about the lowest I have found without spending a whole buncha cash.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MIL-85800/
Good luck, Marine, thanks for serving, and don't be a hero!
Keep the shiny side up!
Scott
I have been looking into low profile air cleaners, because I want to install a carb spacer, and here is what I have found. It is advertized as sitting 2.563" above the flange where the air cleaner sits on the carb, and it about the lowest I have found without spending a whole buncha cash.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MIL-85800/
Good luck, Marine, thanks for serving, and don't be a hero!
Keep the shiny side up!
Scott
Burning Brakes
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From: Concord Calif
The original carburetor on the 1972 Vette was shot so I bought an Edelbrock model 1406 carb which seemed to be taller than the original. I had to use an adapter for it to fit my engine block which made it sit another inch higher. So now I got like an inch maybe two inches from the top of the carb to the hood.
Anyone have any suggestions for a low profile air cleaner? I really don't feel like spending the money on a different carb.
Anyone have any suggestions for a low profile air cleaner? I really don't feel like spending the money on a different carb.
You can use a different carb adapter, there is just a plate version that will work just fine and only rise the carb .090 instead of the inch you have now. As for the air cleaner a drop base model works but you do have to take a ball pen hammer to it and reshape it some around your electric choke if you have one.
Le Mans Master
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From: Oxford MA-----You just lost the game!!!!
Safety Car
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cheap solution, ...buy a cheap air cleaner, cut the bottom out, weld in about 1.5" steel band ( Reguired drop Distance), worked great !
Safety Car
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I know these air cleaners are hated on this site.
But other cars use them all the time, its not going to catch on fire on my car because my timing is perfect and my carb is new so without wasting every waking moment day after day wondering what air cleaner to run I choose this one and am done with it.
If conscience bothers a person buy a replacement filter every year for $10.
But other cars use them all the time, its not going to catch on fire on my car because my timing is perfect and my carb is new so without wasting every waking moment day after day wondering what air cleaner to run I choose this one and am done with it.
If conscience bothers a person buy a replacement filter every year for $10.
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Burning Brakes
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I recommend that the OP use the Edlebrock drop base #1221. I also needed to use a 1/2 spacer but was able to fit a 3 inch air cleaner under a stock hood. Also must use the thin adapter plate.
Le Mans Master
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From: Oxford MA-----You just lost the game!!!!
I know these air cleaners are hated on this site.
But other cars use them all the time, its not going to catch on fire on my car because my timing is perfect and my carb is new so without wasting every waking moment day after day wondering what air cleaner to run I choose this one and am done with it.
If conscience bothers a person buy a replacement filter every year for $10.
But other cars use them all the time, its not going to catch on fire on my car because my timing is perfect and my carb is new so without wasting every waking moment day after day wondering what air cleaner to run I choose this one and am done with it.
If conscience bothers a person buy a replacement filter every year for $10.
Tim, you gotta do something about that master cylinder and vacuum booster, seriously. The rest of the engine compartment looks so nice they stick out like a turd in a punchbowl.
Keep the shiny side up!
Scott
Last edited by scottyp99; Mar 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM.
Safety Car
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I got done what I could before low temps hit and i don't have heat in the garage so now i will tackle the firewall and get 1 of those after market heater boxes next also.
I am now past battling tires and rims last week and pulled out the back window today for the summer.
I am now past battling tires and rims last week and pulled out the back window today for the summer.
Instructor
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if you used a 1" adapter under the carb and to use a dropped base air cleaner you have to get I believe Edel's 3/4" plastic air cleaner adapter so the base clears the choke, now you are really running out of room, if you go with a flat base a.c. you still have the same problem but without the plastic spacer, what options do you have left, rebuild the Q-jet, buy a holley spread bore which I had one on my 69-l-36 and didn't like the Q-J ran better,to use the new Edel. carb you have get the adapter that Manual spoke of along with the 3/4"plastic a.c. spacer, change to a sq. bore intake manifold with plastic a.c. spacer, Vette's can get to be a PIA, which ever way you go, to check top of a.c. to hood clearance go to toy store and get some Silly Puddy make 5 one inch ***** and place one on the stud, rest around the outside top a.c., gently close the hood, open the hood and measure their thickness.
Last edited by anips; Mar 17, 2012 at 10:41 PM.
