Technical EARLY SIXTIES AIR CLEANER ???

Does anybody have a photo(s) of a single air cleaner, modified to fit a four barrel carb. I would like to put one on a flathead with a four barrel modified to fit a little lower over the carb. An example could be a 55 olds/buick v8 air cleaner. It's round but big enough to fab bottom and lower over a four barrel. A plus here would be if someone had a air cleaner that is for sale and may fit the bill, reach out to me. I searched the threads here and found the duel air cleaners but not single. Thanks for your help

 

I bought a $35 dollar air cleaner from Speedway and took the top off it and replaced it with a Mercury hubcap for use on my flathead when I ran it with a 4bbl. It came out nice I thought. Didn't stay with the 4 bbl though. If I can find a pic of it I'll post it up. Was simple to make.

 

Not sure what you're asking but here's what I'm running on my 53

 

I dug around a little and found some pics of it. . I forgot I actually used the top that came with it. Just welded some tabs on the original cover and drilled and tapped some holes in the tabs and then screwed the Merc cover to it. This might not fit your situation but might give you some ideas

 

Thanks for the photos, getting there….I like the indentation on the sides of the top of air cleaner. Personal preference. This photo is what started my idea, not a flathead tho.

 

I did the exact same thing with a '39 Ford hubcap.

 

I don't have any pictures, but I made one out of an old stainless cake cover. They pop up from time to time at yard sales and Goodwill stores. Some have nice designs. I had to stack a couple of filter elements to make it fit. Gene.

 

Here’s a few I’ve built, striping by others.
Would consider selling. Both for 4bbl paper elements in each

 

Maybe something like this?
14 Inch Louvered Corvette/GTO Style Air Cleaner

 

I cut the bottom out of my 2 barrel 55 Buick oil bath and welded a cheap 4 barrel air filter base to it. Still functions as an oil bath as I have it but could be further modified to fit a paper element Works good enough for what I needed and it helps to slightly hide the modern edelbrock carb.

 

A Cad/Olds air cleaner with the side scoops is in my thoughts too big for a flathead.
https://photobucket.com/bucket/c5e8...74/album/f688eba6-cb29-4e57-9f09-f291942aaf54

The 11 inch Helliings & Stellings style air cleaner that Chevy Pope showed are the right size and just flat look great on older engines. I had a real deal one on my 55 Buick in 1966. eBay item number:154298627700

 

I keep this 10 inch air cleaner base on my Ebay watch list to fit either the Cad air cleaner or something else that I might want to convert.

 

57 Chevy 4 bbl, c

 

I thought this one was cool. Currently on eBay.

 

A motorcycle gas tank? Outside the box...

 

Hello,

For a plain jane engine compartment in my first car, a 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery was clean and mostly black. But the Flathead carb had one small air filter, black and standard. The filter could be replaced from any auto parts store, anywhere. But, when sitting around and doing some cleaning on the Flathead, compared to the nice large chrome top three carb air cleaner of the 58 Impala, well, there was no comparison.

Some of my friends had a three carb set up on their SBC motors and they had the small chrome dome cover for each carb. It looked good, so my brother and I tried them on the 348 powered 58 Impala.

The one thing we noticed is that it definitely lighter weight than the large chromed top air cleaner that we modified for the stock 3 carbs. But, the smaller carb covers made the carbs sound as if there were a bunch of sssssnakes sitting around making hissing sounds. No air filter was available, so driving down Coast Highway during a dusty Santana Wind day was definitely not in the cards, if the small chrome three carb caps were being used.

Jnaki

These days, for car shows only, there are all kinds of similar products, but still, no air filter for each of the small caps. Some day a filter that would fit the small cap will be on the market and now it will work with any set of multiple carbs.

 

What a great subject and some fantastic ideas! Well done!

 

This is what I talking about.

 

As for not starting out as a car part that would have a lot of old timers arguing that they had one on their car back in the day.

On the other hand the OP asked about modifying an oil bath filter to use paper filters and what would work easily and look right on a flathead and the answer is not many.

 

No

 

When I see non auto pieces I cant unsee it

 

Hell, that isn't too far off of one of these, and they're over $200.

 

I don’t think most people would know it’s not an air cleaner, I think it could be very cool.
Dan

 

I bought an oil bath off a Desoto to match my engine. Bought a air cleaner from summit with a 4bbl base that came with a washable element the height I required, welded them together using metal mesh on the bottom for more air flow, powder coated the body, chrome the lid (that I freed from the oil bath), put a sticker on it and done.

 

Just use a Big Block Corvette air cleaner base. [they make replicas]


https://www.corvettecentral.com/c3-...7-454/68-72-air-cleaner-base-open-type-153022

 

I used a kinda small base and stacked two filters. It brought air in all around the base. Gene.

 

Sweet
Dan

 

Made this one out of a stainless steel pizza pan and a 55 Fairlane hubcap. Works great!

 

I see small air filter elements at swap meets - both pleated paper and the K&N type - frequently.

 

I've got a stainless Skillet lid on one of my cars.