[DeTomaso] Dog Bone Air cleaner

[Jar]

Cost, weight, restricted air flow be damned.  Look how cool it looks!  The
Pantera is a classy, wicked looking exotic.  It deserves something flashy.
It's anything but the boring round sandwich for me.

Shows you where my values lie...

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Demelo [mailto:wdemelo at cogeco.ca]
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:14 AM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Fw: Air cleaner


The dogbone cost me 10 hp on my 393 stroker. It's because it sits too close
to the carb opening, as Jack said. There is MORE than enought filter space
for flow. A carb spacer solves the problem.
Will

----- Original Message -----
From: <JDeRyke at aol.com>
To: <rimov at charter.net>; <DeTomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:30 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Air cleaner


> In a message dated 1/12/08 6:27:03 PM, rimov at charter.net writes:
>
>> I was under the impression those dog bone cleaners really were really
>> restrictive on air flow. Thought I saw a study comparing several air
>> cleaners and
>> the dog bone cleaners got the two thumbs down on air flow.
>>
> I have some problems with those Holley dogbone cleaners: first they now
> cost
> $250. Second, they weight 12 lbs while a less showy 14" dia paper filter
> weighs 2 lbs, costs 1/5 of the dogbones and has more filtering capacity.
> Those
> filters can be doubled up on each side by adding longer mounting studs, as
> Forest
> Goodheart used on his Magnecharged 392 stroker- he has major clearance
> issues
> which is why he ran it.. He seemed not to have much air restriction with
> the
> quad-filter mod.
>
> Sometimes its not the air cleaner itself but the fact that air into the
> engine must make a VERY sharp turn from the side-mount filters down into
> the carb,
> and the clearance between top of carb and inside of air cleaner casting is
> quite close- hence restrictive on some setups. I've fixed a few of these
> things
> by simply adding a pop-rivited 1-1/2" sheet metal spacer around the air
> cleaner
> mount such that it stood up an inch higher above the carb. The engines
> appeared happier and revved higher after adding the spacer; whether any
> more power
> appeared is unknown. FWIW- J DeRyke
>
>
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