[DeTomaso] original air cleaners

David in Durango adin at frontier.net
Fri Feb 6 10:50:43 EST 2009


Woot, time for some documentation . . .as soon as I can get out of the ice 
cave.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael frazier" <red3644 at hotmail.com>
To: <steven.liebenow at att.net>; "pantera list" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] original air cleaners


>
> Just to make things more fun...I have at least one photo from the factory 
> showing pallets of engines and they didn't have air-cleaners.
> As far as I could tell, they didn't look prepped either as they still had 
> bell housings and other non-applicable stuff attached.  Kinda interesting.
> I think any closed style air cleaner with a snorkel breathing from below 
> the headers would be better than breathing the hot air on top of the
> engine.  Have fun.
> Michael
> Gruppo Rompiculi Corsa..........BBORR in April '09> From: 
> steven.liebenow at att.net> To: detomaso at realbig.com> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 
> 08:22:39 +0000> Subject: [DeTomaso] original air cleaners> > Before you 
> all run out to the wrecking yards to try and find Ford air cleaners to use 
> as Pantera versions, let me correct Jack a tad.> > Since the Pantera motor 
> was a Mustang/Cougar motor used from 1971 on in those models, they likely 
> received the same air cleaners on them when the shipping pallets arrived 
> in Modena. They are special to those model cars as well! While "based" 
> upon the air cleaners used in thousands of other Ford cars, they have that 
> little vacuum motor for fresh air intake on the side!> > Some of you would 
> recognize this option from the "Q"-code 428 cars of 69 and 70, and the 
> Boss 302's that didn't get shakers. Ford continued this same feature in 
> the 4V equipped Mustangs from 71-73. They are unique in that they have the 
> rest of the vacuum and charcoal vent tubes, and hot
>  air intake stuff, plus that little vacuum operated door on the side. That 
> is what sets them aside from the rest. These were the Q-code air cleaners 
> that were used in these later years. "M" code air cleaners are the plain 
> type used on 2V and 4V engines interchangeably.> > They were used on the 
> Boss, CJ, and HO models of Mustangs and Cougars, making them somewhat 
> valuable to the restorers.> > Now, DeTomaso may have turned the air 
> cleaner around, or moved the air intake snorkel around to face rearward, I 
> don't recall. They also built odd tin shrouds around this "extra" ram air 
> intake too. That is what you saw in the pictures that were linked to the 
> blue ebay car in Novato. That was a stock setup.> > I have also seen some 
> air cleaners that seemed to have two extra shields on them for some reason 
> or another....can't recall.> > Having been modified so much, they would 
> have little or certainly less value to the restorers of the Mustangs etc 
> but for parts to fix theirs.....> > What
>
> I would like to see, is some of your European versions of the factory air 
> cleaners!> > Steve> > _______________________________________________> > 
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