Hamber's I am looking for information I simply cannot find, par a 1961 skylark manual and, in my experience even the shop manuals get vague and or don't have visual aids. The thing is in 1961, Oldsmobile engibeered their own breed of the aluminum Buick 215 V8, and early production 2G Rochester equipped motors have a crown and 'top hat' nicknamed air cleaner, only in that year. Now a lot of people confuse this for the jet fire turbo rocket, I guess if you weren't as aquainted with the series as I am you'd think they were using a blow through carburetor setup.... But there was no turbo in 1961. At any rate, the point is this: Is there a plate to set onto the cast in ring all the other air cleaners of the day worked like (opposite of the common lid on top 70's up style, this would be upside-down) or was there just a wire mesh and polyestrene foam rinseable element? No one seems to know so far,but most people were more concerned with hot rodding than preservation, if they were old enough to buy one and are still breathing today. Anyone that can help, or has a diagram, please post or reply. The metallurgy and general shape of the bottom of the housing suggests the plate, but it news to be smaller than the plate from, say a GTO, and not be carter 4barrel size holed. Please jump in
Also, the louvered air cleaner from a goat..... Has the same look of the Ohc Pontiac inline 6 but was set for a carter AFB. Anyone's seen a factory sprint quadrajet air cleaner?
i have a 61 215 with the top hat air cleaner it still has the factory sticker on it and it reads to use a heavy duty paper element A.C. maybe 14c its worn by the text and is hard to read. it also lists standard element type A.C. a115 maybe that will help you some.
Thank you, kind sir, as I will start my investigation with this clue. My contingency plan is to buy $30 worth of stuff from speedway. There's a $15 adapter ring to make the 2G fit the 5&1/4 opening of a 4bareel air cleaner, and a $15 10" 2inch paper exposed element 4 barrel air cleaner. This cleaner, without the top, will fit the top of the casting, and seat against both surfaces. It's engineered by an unhinged gorilla, but doesn't the t shirt say I can fix anything with duct tape? Thanks, and if you can pm me a good photo of that label I'd like to search for replicas or print my own (glossy chrome 120grain card stock) and gorilla glue it down on the silver wiped clean of its message label on the one that has a label. No one repops these labels, but if you have the worst selling engine In the club, olds turbo rocket, they Repop the poo-poo out if that placard. Figures. And Nothing for the 215 Pontiac. Nothing. 194/326 come on down! You're the next contestant on the price is right.
I never owned one but have a vague memory (from 1961) that they did not have an air cleaner base. The manifold was the base, it had a ring cast into it that held the filter element and a stamped steel cover went on top. Sorry I can't be more specific.
That's what I'm looking for, clues. At least you remember it or something like it, I'm making a hotrod 10 inch air cleaner work inside it at least. Always wanted to go to Canada and raid junkyards Thanks
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