Jett's_Pony
Active member
Hey,
I've had a couple of questions on how I solved the clearence problem between the forward air cleaner and the hood. First of all, I used Mr. Gasket Co. 1 and a half inch air cleaners, with a six inch diameter. Part number 1491. I got them from Amazon.com, and for only 14.00 each. :roll: I had to make adapters to fit them to my autolite 1100s. (The two outer carbs are off a 170 ci '64 truck, and the center is off a 240 ci '66 truck, with the load-o-matic disabled). The autolites had a diameter of 2 and 3/16, but the air cleaner was 2 and 5/8. A quick trip to the local home improvement store resulted in three PVC 2 inch pipe fittings. After a lot of cutting and grinding, I was left with three adapters that fit amazingly well.
My amazing adapters.
Then, I had to lower the base of the air cleaner. Translation, I flattened it.
That still was not enough for the front or center carb, so I had to grind a small indent into the base to lower it further.
Then there was the simple matter of mounting them, and taking pictures. I lowered the center air cleaner just to make it look even, they slope down from rear to front to look even.
So maybe they aren't magical quick-fix air cleaners, but they work quite a bit better than the ones I butchered on. Hope this helps anyone with the same problem. I reccomend the three autolites, take this for example. My car with the stock 200 had a 0 to 60 of 23 seconds. Now it is a much quicker 11.5 seconds. Go me.
Jett
P.S. Be VERY careful with the extra horespower. On the first day of my Senior year, I spun the car out into the curb. Not very proud of myself. I drove through that corner all last year on a stock 200, and could not spin a tire. Go figure. Oh well, three days and $600 later, I'm back on the road, wiser and $600 further from that paint job.
I've had a couple of questions on how I solved the clearence problem between the forward air cleaner and the hood. First of all, I used Mr. Gasket Co. 1 and a half inch air cleaners, with a six inch diameter. Part number 1491. I got them from Amazon.com, and for only 14.00 each. :roll: I had to make adapters to fit them to my autolite 1100s. (The two outer carbs are off a 170 ci '64 truck, and the center is off a 240 ci '66 truck, with the load-o-matic disabled). The autolites had a diameter of 2 and 3/16, but the air cleaner was 2 and 5/8. A quick trip to the local home improvement store resulted in three PVC 2 inch pipe fittings. After a lot of cutting and grinding, I was left with three adapters that fit amazingly well.
My amazing adapters.
Then, I had to lower the base of the air cleaner. Translation, I flattened it.
That still was not enough for the front or center carb, so I had to grind a small indent into the base to lower it further.
Then there was the simple matter of mounting them, and taking pictures. I lowered the center air cleaner just to make it look even, they slope down from rear to front to look even.
So maybe they aren't magical quick-fix air cleaners, but they work quite a bit better than the ones I butchered on. Hope this helps anyone with the same problem. I reccomend the three autolites, take this for example. My car with the stock 200 had a 0 to 60 of 23 seconds. Now it is a much quicker 11.5 seconds. Go me.
Jett
P.S. Be VERY careful with the extra horespower. On the first day of my Senior year, I spun the car out into the curb. Not very proud of myself. I drove through that corner all last year on a stock 200, and could not spin a tire. Go figure. Oh well, three days and $600 later, I'm back on the road, wiser and $600 further from that paint job.
. Add in a truly worn out junk carb that the previous owner had bought from one of the chain autoparts store and it adds up to a car that would not get out of its own way 
. I did the 0 to 60 times just to give a base for my improvements. I also did some runs up a steep local hill and the car went from 43mph and 46 seconds to 66+mph and 30 seconds at the top. On the 66+ run I had to lift off the throttle at the top, I was way over the speed limit and things were getting exciting near the top 
. I did the final runs on a day when it was over 100 degrees outside. Thought I was going to get a speeding ticket for a couple of seconds 8) . My car used to struggle and sounded really strained at 65 on the freeway. Now it runs all day at 70+ with very little throttle and still pulls pretty hard when I nail it.
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. The car was stock and struggled to stay at 65. The cam and later head with the big valves made the motor breath much better and pull the higher speeds much easier. I will check when I install the new rear springs in the next week or so. I put in some cut down V8 performance coils in the front and need to balance them by adding stiffer rear springs. It seems to be a bit rich still and I need to find smaller jets, has anyone tried the ones on Ebay?
, to mate it with the stock throttle linkage. 
