Custom Vintage High-Flow Air Cleaner Project

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So I've got this old Ford 200-inch straight-six air cleaner lying around...it's carb hole is the exact size of a slightly-used radiator hose...the radiator hose has a couple of 90-degree curves...

"All" I need to do is clean & paint the air cleaner, fab up a bracket (or 2) and a carb adapter, cut and fit the hose, run the crankcase breather hose up to the air cleaner base, and I'll be the first one on my block with a custom-made, vintage high-flow air cleaner - and with a round filter intended for a 200-inch engine, I won't have to replace the air filter EVER AGAIN, lol...

I'd go from this boxy and boring air cleaner housing;


To this! (sorry about the fuzzy picture) Whaddya think?
 
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See if you can fit the original(the motor off of the cart) one inside the housing or adapt the housing to fit a similar size to the engine filter.
On my bike I had used the original filter but made an adapter to fit the carb and a filter fitting to fit a rad hose, kinda like a ram air or up graded filter for a car.
I think something could be done with that filter housing and look much better than those air box thingys.
 
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I'm cornfused...fit the Briggs air filter into the Ford housing? Why, when a larger filter for the Ford housing is the same cost or less than a smaller Briggs filter, and would fit right in.

I'm thinking of an adapter on the carb, with a radiator hose from the adapter to the Ford air cleaner housing, which will be mounted on brackets up above the carb / engine with the snorkel pointed forwards...
 
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The Ford filter may be more or less restrictive than the stock filter. At least with the stock filter you have that variable covered.

On my bike I did look for an after market filter and adapter but chose to keep the original one and build the adapter instead. It turned out good and It works. I just figured why not, but im not too sure how well it would work though. None the less I do like the concept.
 
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The automotive filter has got to be WAY less restrictive than the Briggs one - they're both folded-paper types, and the one for the Ford housing is 2" tall and about 13" diameter, WAY bigger than the Briggs 3"x6". Plus, it's designed for feeding 200 inches (or 3.3 liters, or 3,300 cc) of engine instead of the Briggs 300cc's.

Now all I need is a free afternoon and some scrap metal...
 
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Ok, I see what your looking at. I was just figuring keep the variables down. but I do think it would look cool and your way It would have less modifications.
 
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souperman000 said:
since we have the same engine, I will be following this thread...
Click to expand...

Mine is a Model 19 from 1990. You always want the I/C version(cast iron sleeve) Mine has the cool bore and was scared really bad, I think I will bore it out and put in a cast iron sleeve.

Great little engines. What the others were talking about is flow of air per Cubic Inch. AN Explanion (we don't really know how many air atoms it lets in because we can't caculate that high) lets say the Ford filter lets in 100 atoms per Cubic inch, and the briggs lets in 150 atoms per cubic inch. But the briggs has 4 Square Inches of filter and the Ford has 26 square inches of filter which one allows more air? The Ford.


I read these formula's in a Briggs Shop Book.
 
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