Thread: Unique or "Differant" Air Cleaner

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I'm getting to the "little things" on this build. I looked at my plain old school looking round chrome air cleaner and thought "It just anit cutting it".
So now I'm looking for something Unique for an air cleaner.

I know y'all have a few ideas.

AND please dont say a word about using an old mailbox. I anit that redneck.

use an old mailbox!

i found this pic that i like. im thinking of something similar but giving it my own feel-maybe polished stainless???

that is sweet looking spike.

i have always wanted to use a cymbal for the top for the top of the air cleaner. There are lots of things you could do to it. thats my two cents.

Originally Posted by jyardgirl

that is sweet looking spike.

yeah wish i had of designed it myself!

im thinking something similar and maybe running cold air ducts to the inlets on either side-something better looking than flexible tube though!

single quad? dual quad? I like the setup you showed. gives a very clean look. whatever you choose just think outside the box. don't limit yourself to what others have done already.

Russ

Originally Posted by lotsatoys

single quad? dual quad? I like the setup you showed. gives a very clean look. whatever you choose just think outside the box. don't limit yourself to what others have done already.

Russ

Love that!!!

yeah i agree. im at the stage where im looking at as many ideas as i can-like the pic i showed- and then think "what could i change on that". Im a sheetmatal fabricator by trade so am lucky that i can make alot of things myself-as well as being handy with fiberglass.

like lotsatoys said if you could let us know the carb set up it would make it easier to give suggestions.

That one you pictured, SpikeO, is actually a fairly rare one that Buick used on some cars (I think Wildcats). Someone dressed it up with pinstriping. I think they were painted red originally, but could be wrong on that.

Don

I'm using a single 4bbl/EPS manifold(lowrise) but I must also clear the HEI dist.

I'm looking into several differant kits to build my own that has a ram air effect and can be painted/powder coated or chromed.

Try to picture this in your head.
Using 1 or 2 of these kits like in the pic.

I scratched my head for a long time on that as well but "settled" for a Billet Specialties small oval. I like it, but for one thing, the element size is too small and it still is a 'settled for' version. That Buick cleaner pictured above is nice, but not for my particular car. It has to 'fit' what you are trying to do physically and blend with what ever else you have on the engine and follow that theme. If it's too big, it overwhelms the visual effect, too small, it would have the appearance of a pimple on a........you fill in the blank

I love imaginative thinking! Maybe I'm just bored with the cars I have seen over the last 50 years. Many of the things that are done are either because...

...builders have been conditioned to only think within certain limits...

...they are trying to build in what is considered a classic or nostalgic look...

...or they are afraid that someone else might not approve, or even offer criticism.

You could create your own design, as you have suggested, maybe inspired by the popular Olds air cleaner of the fifties or a famous rare piece of speed equipment... or look at other things going on during the era your car represents, like that newspaper box that was used as a scoop on many race cars... or even be humorous, and use something like a sombrero, a mailbox, a tool box, or a hubcap. Maybe you could even think of something with a personal meaning to you.

have a friend who ran this on his 41 Chevy...joe

Once someone else has done it, doing it again isn't "unique".....

Inspired by the '67 Buick GS housing maybe you should go to a costume house and see if you can get one of these helmets.................

Or just google it and see what's out there! I think the bed pan one might start to smell when the engine heats up! I remember a discussion on here related to engine size and air filter size. I really like the Hilborn style, but they have tiny air filters. So it's not just style, but function too! Now a old mailbox has a lot of volume!

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I always ran the caddy/olds air cleaners modified to use a paper element, until they started repopping them!! I'm looking at using a 67 nova dual snorkel air cleaner on my next streetrod project-'ol school, and it directs the air in from each hood side louver!!