My air cleaner build

[Arne]

With all this help, looks like you are on the right track. Now for my "help".

If it were me, I'd add a nipple on the back of one of them (probably the one you haven't built yet!) to connect the breather hose from the valve cover. That is a much cleaner solution than one of those silly looking K&N breather filters, and cuts down on fumes and mess under the hood.

[g9m3c]

The stock air cleaner is about 3", the stock air filter is about 2 1/2" and the stock air horns are about 1 1/2" tall - so the HS6 ram pipe should be about perfect at 1 1/2" height. At $32.00 each that is IMHO a very reasonable price...

FWIW,

Carl B.

Eh.....not to me. Hopefully I can find a good deal on some 16 gauge stamped horns that I can weld onto a 16 gauge plate that'll bolt up inside of the air cleaners.

Anyone know of a place for those?

Grant,

Any holes in the mouth of the carb needs a corresponding hole in the backing plate.

Ah.......those holes. I thought we were talking about holes for some other hoses or something. I plan to drill those and the mounting holes for the bases once the carbs get here and I have a good pattern to work from.

With all this help, looks like you are on the right track. Now for my "help".

If it were me, I'd add a nipple on the back of one of them (probably the one you haven't built yet!) to connect the breather hose from the valve cover. That is a much cleaner solution than one of those silly looking K&N breather filters, and cuts down on fumes and mess under the hood.

I already have one of those "silly looking" breathers. It's a very small one, which I think looks better than a 1" diameter hose running across the top of the engine.

[g9m3c]

Fully buffed with the Z decal applied. Not bad for spray paint, aye?

That's all I did on it today. :: Probably not gonna get a lot done the rest of the week either. I'll be out of town for a few days, but hopefully it will be running in a couple more weeks or less!

Any ideas on some cheap stamped air horns?

[datrod]

Here is an air cleaner I made about 3-4 years ago.

Top view

Side view

inside view

Edited July 23, 2009 by datrod

[g9m3c]

That looks great!

I got an email from Ztherapy today saying my carbs will ship out tomorrow. Looks like I'm not gonna have these done by the time I need em.

[fixitman]

A similar style air cleaner for triple Mikunis is shown in the attached photos. It was purchased from Jim Wolf's Import Auto Center in the 80's. The air filter is a K&N model E-2950, used in a Lamborghini Countach S.

Fixitman

[datrod]

A similar style air cleaner for triple Mikunis is shown in the attached photos. It was purchased from Jim Wolf's Import Auto Center in the 80's. The air filter is a K&N model E-2950, used in a Lamborghini Countach S.

Fixitman

Wow that's a nice one. And from the 80's no less. Looks to be sheetmetal.

[fixitman]

Wow that's a nice one. And from the 80's no less. Looks to be sheetmetal.[/quote

Aluminum sheet actually. Your air cleaner is very nicely done. What is the material? How did you make it?

Fixitman

[datrod]

Wow that's a nice one. And from the 80's no less. Looks to be sheetmetal.[/quote

Aluminum sheet actually. Your air cleaner is very nicely done. What is the material? How did you make it?

Fixitman

Thank you. It's made of 6061-T6 Aluminum. Machined on my Haas VF3 CNC.

[=Enigma=]

NIce work on the air cleaners. Add some ram stacks and you'll be good to go.

[fixitman]

NIce work on the air cleaners. Add some ram stacks and you'll be good to go.

The Mikuni velocity stacks that came with the carbs are mounted inside this air cleaner.

Fixitman

[=Enigma=]

The Mikuni velocity stacks that came with the carbs are mounted inside this air cleaner.

Fixitman

My comment was actually directed at the original poster (g9m3c).

Edited July 25, 2009 by =Enigma=