<VV> Highrise air cleaner "I can't see how"

[TimogensTurbo at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/23/2006 8:44:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
dsjkling at sbcglobal.net writes:

> I guess I should have put my earlier comment in context.  On a relatively
> stock motor with unbored carbs, "I can't see how" adding a 1" spacer could
> make much difference.  Sure, if you hog out the carbs and do other things to
> run at higher rpms or run a larger displacement, then modification of the
> stock air cleaner would probably be necessary.
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Dan, it is unfortunate, for you, that you didn't live in the hotbed of  
engine mods [ SoCal / 70's].  Where a High school graduate with NO engineering 
education was exposed to every imaginable modification / combination   possible!

After going to a CORSA convention and looking a 300 cars..once a 
year......can you imagine seeing 10,000 cars every weekend?  All you had to do was LOOK / 
LISTEN / ASK QUESTIONS [ bring beer!].

Early on, when Corvairs were the "King of the sand dunes", and most were 
running mostly stock engines.....it was noticed that engines with the "desert air 
pack" [ fan duct and HIGH RISE AIR CLEANER]  ran better than those with the 
stock aircleaner!
Those 2" tubes raising the cross tube made a difference!  These guys didn't 
use it for performance...it was to try and keep sand out!  BUT  it worked 
BETTER!!!

see   http://corvaircenter.com/phorum/read.php?1,8735,8735#msg-8735   for 
pics and GM  drawings!

Same with head ports......First came all the "Tri-porting"  with those 
beautiful tubes and Webers...........then it was noticed that  a buggy with just a 2 
bbl on a center mount manifold...ran way faster........by ASKING, I found 
that he had DRILLED the exhaust ports at an angle and  fab'd  headers to fit...my 
next question, " what size drill?  and at what angle?".  Soon the local speed 
shops were offering the same thing!


Matt Nall
stocker, mod, v8, turbo, boat, Sandcar
ALLVAIR!
Timogen was a softy!