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07-21-2009, 10:56 PM | #1 |
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I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Whats The Deal Dirty Air Filters, Air Cleaners Small Enough For a Mini Bike, All Twisted from Being Dirty... This is Your Air going Inside YOUR High Priced Motor. Close one Of You Air Passages air try and RUN... CLEAN AIR AND LOTS OF IT MOTORS LOVE IT HELPS THE 1 PHASE OF A GREAT RUNNING MOTOR.... MY 0.2 CENTS
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07-21-2009, 11:07 PM | #2 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Care to elaborate on where this disgracefullness is occuring?
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07-21-2009, 11:14 PM | #3 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
that's just funny
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07-22-2009, 12:14 AM | #4 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Hey man, puf-puf-give
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07-22-2009, 01:19 AM | #5 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Oops, busted by the air cleaner Police. I'll be and sure to pick up a new element this weekend Officer.
Mine is a 14 inch but I do believe that it is pretty dirty at the moment. |
07-22-2009, 01:44 AM | #6 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
what would u say if i dont have an air cleaner on my truck now?
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07-22-2009, 02:07 AM | #7 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
That sure flows good!
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07-22-2009, 02:56 AM | #8 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
With no air cleaner I'd say you must not be too fond of your engine...
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07-22-2009, 03:41 AM | #9 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Oops Im guilty I haven't cleaned mine or reoild it, I guess I was waiting on completeing my truck first then cleaning it when I start driving it...
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07-22-2009, 05:31 AM | #10 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
I guess he`s saying that in many pictures of motors he has noticed a significant amount of undersized and/or dirty air filters and feels that needs to brought up.I agree 100% with the point he made.Engines are air pumps that run on combustion created by adding a small amount of fuel to the air.I wonder how many gallons of air per mile we use.
There`s a formula that determines the cubic area of an air cleaner for a given displacement.Going bigger is never a bad thing.Dirt reduces the effective cubic dimension and we all know that a dirty filter kills power as well as fuel economy.It`s a cheap part to replace and is the single best way to assure optimum fuel economy,providing timing and carb are set correctly.I think that`s the only point he was trying to make.
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07-22-2009, 07:51 AM | #11 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
I'm way ahead of you. My 327 has two mouths to breathe through.
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07-22-2009, 07:54 AM | #12 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
That came out great Kevin....
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07-22-2009, 08:07 AM | #13 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
me likey....
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07-22-2009, 08:15 AM | #14 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Kevin, that turned out great! PC'd I suppose?
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07-22-2009, 08:47 AM | #15 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Of course. If it's metal and I can fit it into my oven, I coat it. I even powdercoated my last IPOD and my keychain. I bring stuff home off of my firetruck and coat it too. Sure makes the other engine companies jealous.
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07-22-2009, 08:52 AM | #16 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Pics of the ipod and keycjhain please .
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07-22-2009, 08:57 AM | #17 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Okay, I will get them out of my locker and snap pics when I get to work Friday.
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07-22-2009, 10:16 AM | #18 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
OK so here is the question, the first post is about dirty and SMALL air cleaner, i have a small 8 inch on my 350, but really whats the diff between an 8 inch and the one TX build, his two holes dont add up to 8 inch????
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07-22-2009, 10:24 AM | #19 | |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
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I just did mine on a whim. I've always just run a single snorkel stocker on my mild engines with no complaint. Since my engine has a Corvette theme, I went with the extra snorkel simply to make it look a bit Vett-ish. Plus, I'm louvering the hell out of my hood, so I needed protection from water. Compromises...
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07-22-2009, 10:24 AM | #20 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Your iPod? How did it like the oven temps?
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07-22-2009, 10:27 AM | #21 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Dont get me wrong i love the whole snorkle thing and TWO thats just sick!!! But i thought that by removing the whole stock air cleaner and going with even a small open sided cleaner you would get more air? If this is not the case i would like to get in line for a double snorkle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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07-22-2009, 10:27 AM | #22 |
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07-22-2009, 11:09 AM | #23 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Interesting thread, and it's certainly nothing new. I recall seeing pics in magazines when I was a kid (a looooong time ago!) and there were magnificent-looking engines with oh-so-tiny air cleaners. Even though I wasn't old enough to drive, it just didn't seem right to me...
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07-22-2009, 11:14 AM | #24 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Here's a pic of my dual snorkel air cleaner.
It's a stock 65 SS set up I think? I liked it, so I went with it as well.
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07-22-2009, 12:27 PM | #25 |
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Re: I See So Many Great Motors with Small And ****ty Air Cleaners
Its been my experiance that the more cubic inch's the more air is needed to feed that thirst for air.
A few years back I was given one of those triangle edelbrock top air cleaners cuz I was told it would wake my 400 s/b right up and look good doing it. Well it looked good but it was easy to see the diference in the timeslips at the 1320. I had lost more than a second...thats huge. I started experimenting with diferent size air elements and honestly what I found is running the largest element that fit under a persons hood netted the best performance. Now I cant speak to gas milage as I hadnt tested for that. But I always either change out or clean my air element ever oil change depending on what Im running I.E KnN filters are reusable. I also find thats a good time to replace the fuel filter element, greese the suspention , clean the batterey terminals, and a few other things. Last edited by ll____b0t____ll; 07-22-2009 at 12:33 PM. |
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