Im stumped on something silly. Air filter setup.

[mike16]

its not like your buying shoes to match you purse, dress or hat.

[lyrikz]

Originally Posted by mike16

its not like your buying shoes to match you purse, dress or hat.

But it is. Spend all this time getting it how i want it, then just throw a ****ty loooking air filter on it. bah. I figured what i wanted to get.

[petey-pablo]

Heres mine..Plain and simple

[petey-pablo]

These are nice but pricey RAM AIR BOX I will buy one of these some day, I had one of these on my 71 longbed with a 454BB and I definitely felt the difference when I put it on..
http://www.ramairbox.com/index.html

[lakeroadster]

Originally Posted by Longhorn Man

the foam in those will trap gas spray. Every time you pump the throttle to fire it up, a little sprays upwards and into that foam.
All it takes is the slightest of a backfire... just a hickup, and it can light up.
I ignored everyone on this and learned my self.

That's advice we can use! The PO of my 65 installed on eof those... Looks like it gets the AXE!

Thanks for the advice!

[my67chevytruck]

Originally Posted by Longhorn Man

<-------- DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!
That filter is a fire waiting to happen. The stories you hear are not BS, they are very true.
I have one I use as wall art packed away somewhere since the move. Even having one, I would (and have) drive with NO air filter before putting that POS on top of my engine.

Mine is wall art as well, learned about 15 years ago that a back fire is all that was needed to

[68Stepbed]

Originally Posted by mike16

its not like your buying shoes to match you purse, dress or hat.

Actually, it's almost just like that. You need to try to stick with a theme through the whole engine bay. I like the ball milled air cleaners, but without ball milled valve covers, or some kind of milled aluminum, it would look like socks on a rooster.

lyrikz, you have chrome steel valve covers with the CHEVROLET emossed letters, so my suggestion would be a chrome steel air cleaner lid. Something with no lettering or with the same style lettering as the VC's if possible.The tiangle style air cleaner you have picked should look great. My only suggestion would be lettering choices like I mentioned above.

[lyrikz]

Thanks.

IM thinking of changing the whole setup, but the budget isnt allowing it. lol

[pmpski_1]

I have the same as Petey-Pablo.

[white 67]

Here my old one, I dont know if you have seen these but it matches you valve covers.

[chevy_mike]

Here you go. My setup (sure hope it fits under the hood...)

[pmpski_1]

Originally Posted by chevy_mike

Here you go. My setup (sure hope it fits under the hood...)

I don't see why it wouldn't

[C-10 simplex]

As a public service announcement, i feel i should present my story concerning the edlebrock "triangle" air cleaner.

But first, let me say that i think Edlebrock is a great company and i use other edlebrock products. But i think they dropped the ball concerning this type of air cleaner.

http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/sm...p?topic=7169.0


In another instance, i used that exact same air cleaner on another car and the engine had a backfire and the engine physically blew the air cleaner off the engine about 20 inches in the air. (the latch mechanism for this air cleaner is also maybe not the best design out there) i had the hood up when this happened.

b) the other concern is that the foam may be too close to the top of the carb and/or bowl vents. This can cause problems with fuel metering.


Now, as far as what styles of air cleaners i do like are the dual snorkel type that alot of hi-po gm cars had. In this way, you're getting high volume air intake when needed while still getting maximum mpg.

[70stroker]

chevy mike i like your style.

[GASoline71]

Originally Posted by Longhorn Man

Big Mike... I was one of those guys at one point.
At least the paint on the hood was already burned before I ignored the guys that knew more than me. I burned quite a bit of paint and ruined a nice leather jacket putting that fire out.

Yep... like stated before... fire waiting to happen but no one listens. I had one on a V-8 chainsaw... yep, you read that right... a V-8 chainsaw... back fire in the carb caused a heck of a fire...

Here it is in action... that's the bed of my Dad's 1970 C/10 on the left...

That's me on the left...



Gary

[72Levi]

As unsafe as they are, I wonder why there has never been a class action lawsuit against them? Safety first!

[chevy_mike]

Originally Posted by 70stroker

chevy mike i like your style.

No, no, no.... I like your style.

I think I am missing a big part on mine.

[lakeroadster]

Originally Posted by vegaschevy

funny how everyone hates foam but every dirt bike known to man has no fire issues and they all have foam. trophy trucks and offroad buggies too

If the foam is a secondary filter that is wrapped around a regular primary filter (to keep the dust and grime) the gas spray won't get to the foam, therefore the foam won't ignite.

The Edelbrock uses foam as the only filtering media...

[oldblue1968chevy]

I know fourwheelers have a metal screen on the inside of the foam filter..

never thought of that...

I wanna dual snorkel type, I currently have stock and wanna dual snorkel or one like petey pablos..clean.

[Leviticus]

Originally Posted by petey-pablo

Heres mine..Plain and simple

Nice lookin engine Petey.

But every time I see these open top filters I have flashbacks to my childhood to the old Tupperware lids. First time I saw one, my first thought was that someone improvised and stole Mom's Tupperware top

[67ss&99ss]

factory setup on my truck



my camaro has this, pro-form chevrolet top, w/bowtie wing nut, drop base, low profile k&n

[petey-pablo]

Originally Posted by Leviticus

Nice lookin engine Petey.

But every time I see these open top filters I have flashbacks to my childhood to the old Tupperware lids. First time I saw one, my first thought was that someone improvised and stole Mom's Tupperware top

Thanks

[Boyd]

Here is the one I used for my Camaro and will also use on my '72 short step. It's something you don't see all the time.

[lyrikz]

Originally Posted by Boyd

Here is the one I used for my Camaro and will also use on my '72 short step. It's something you don't see all the time.

I like it.

[Alvin]

I ran one of the triangle edelbrock filters for a few months when i bought my first '68. It caught fire numerous times, but I'd just crank the engine back up, rev it, and the fire would get sucked down in the engine and go out.

Not saying it will work every time for everyone, but it did for me. All the same, I replaced it as soon as I could. It's still hanging on the wall.