<VV> Re: AIR CLEANER HOUSING / Hot Air Humor

[Louis C. Armer,Jr.]

Hmmmmmmmmm..................This sounds like the voice of many 
experiences !!! <GGG>

FrontMan
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At 08:36 PM 3/14/2006, you wrote:
great big snippero

>Many manufacturers did obscure research like this with air cleaners, 
>particularly Chrysler Co.   In fact, during the musclecar years, 
>Chrysler was putting air cleaners on their musclecars that helped 
>the engines actually make more horsepower *with* the air cleaner 
>than without it.    Dick Landy wrote some articles on this during 
>his "tech" days while fielding dragrace cars during which he 
>discovered that he could turn a quicker quarter-mile by leaving the 
>stock factory air cleaner on the carb instead of replacing it with a 
>"low restriction" aftermarket "race" air cleaner.    Chrysler 
>produced a number of brochures demonstrating cross-sections of air 
>cleaners which showed how subtle curves and contours of the pan and 
>cover could guide air into the carb more efficiently, thus improving flow.
>
>GM did this also, with some of the air cleaners on muscular vehicles 
>like the Corvettes and the SS cars.   Ford also caught on and did 
>similar work with their SCCA effort Mustangs and bigblock Fairlanes etc.
>
>
>The end result is that those 1960s air cleaners sometimes were more 
>than an upside-down cake pan  with a tube sticking out the side and 
>a lid on top.
>
>
>It's also why you may end up having to pay 100+ BUCKS for a factory 
>musclecar air cleaner on Ebay anymore, following so many of them 
>being arbitrarily yanked off and tossed in the trash in favor of a 
>Cal-Custom chrome plated screened-over dogdish air cleaner which did 
>nothing for the air flow into the carb...  but it looked pretty when 
>you opened the hood at McDonalds on a Saturday night.
>
>Speaking of Cal-Custom:
>
>Avoid those little C-C  chrome plated "pot" air cleaners that clamp 
>onto the tops of the stock Rochesters via a nylon "adaptor".    They 
>don't really clean the air all that well and they tend to choke the 
>engine, as well as rattle loose, fall off, and get batted around the 
>engine bay by the cooling fan.
>
>
>tony..
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