My "Project 'Upgrades'"

[lalessi1]

For the next installment... I had a Spectre Performance Air Cleaner feeding cowl air to my carburetor at one time but I changed that arrangement when I went to EFI. I didn't like the filter element. I had been thinking about reviving the cold air idea so I built a new base that would accept a conventional element... Then I remembered something I wanted to do since I was a kid.... I will let the pics speak for themselves. The air cleaner has about 1/2" clearance to the hood and the wing nut hit the hood. I wound up using a barrel nut.

[Tom S]

...I had a Spectre Performance Air Cleaner ...

Could you please post a link or a clue to where you got that air cleaner? Got tired of searching for that one & not finding it in their dozens of products.

[lalessi1]

This as close as you can come to what I have... I bought the "fabricator series" a few years ago, and it had the second snorkel as an attachment, and it was in raw aluminum. It is not available any more. I called Spectre because I can't find the second snorkel (as of now), that is what they told me.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/spe-98638?seid=srese1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuNemBhCBARIsADp74QQt3JGFcbh0a3_RNuvq20Ogfqn2w991Lt1iy8BNsU54glbsOGWy5-EaAoYkEALw_wcB

The air cleaner uses a Very thin element with some kind of "cotton" filter medium that is very thin and only lasted a few hundred miles.

PM me and I will be happy to help with pics or.....

[Tom S]

This as close as you can come to what I have...

Thanks! Don't think I want to spend that kind of money for an air cleaner. Yikes!

[mustang6984]

Thanks! Don't think I want to spend that kind of money for an air cleaner. Yikes!

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[lalessi1]

The one I bought was less than half of that... before Covid.

[lalessi1]

Well I got the valve covers with the stickers on installed today. I am very pleased with how they turned out. Now the "Thunderbird V8" emblem matches what's under the hood.

[mustang6984]

Looks sharp! Nice work!

[glenmichael]

Absolutely Beautiful, Thank you for sharing, extremely clean ..

[djfordmanjack]

NICE ! really liking the finish on your intake manifold. Is that some kind of wrinkle paint or just the natural cast aluminium?

[lalessi1]

Nah, just plain old aluminum....

[RICH MUISE]

Looks great Lynn!

[lalessi1]

Well since things are slow I thought I post a couple more "improvements". I saw cos's post in "kinda slow" so .... Around these parts we don't have to prepare for winter and now I am not sure it will even get cold. We have experienced RECORD heat and an extreme drought for the past 100 days and outside activity has been non existent. "Fall" is a little more accommodating so car show activity picks up through December. Anyway I went to a show a couple of weeks ago and I noticed my tail light lenses were VERY faded. I bought them from Dennis Carpenter 12 years ago. I always wanted back up lights on my car so I decided to get new lenses while they were still available. I also decided the car was a little high in the back so I went back to the 2" lowering blocks instead of the 1" ones I have been running for a while. (Now the tires are almost rubbing on the traction bars, so I have some new issues to resolve. So Its "kinda slow"