Got bored this past weekend, so decided to do some tinkering. Been wanting to adapt the throttle body to take a standard 5 1/8" air cleaner assembly. Gives you more filter options and ends up being cheaper. So here's what I came up with.

Got a piece of clear lexan I had laying around, about an 1/8" thick. Cut to 5 1/8" square, then found center and compassed out a circle. Cut it out slowly with the jigsaw - gotta go slow or the lexan can melt to the blade. The Lexan is nice cause you can hit the cut edge with a torch, and it will "polish" right back to crystal clear.

Next, I took the stock brass colored hold down, and traced a line for the original air pan hole. Drilled a starter hole for the jigsaw and cut out the center. Little hand fitting, and it went on nice and tight. Next, secured one of the 3/4" black plastic Edelbrock carb. spacers to the adapter with some RTV Black. I chose to affix the adapter to a spacer insted of to an air cleaner directly. That way, I have a dedicated Adapter, not a dedicated Air Cleaner.

I decided to go with an Edelbrock foam element triangular air cleaner assembly. Just had to drill out the speader/hold down bar to accept the two stock studs, and it went right together. Also got a simple chrome breather from the parts house to replace the stock breather and filter in the original pan.

Really cleaned up the engine compartment, and now I have access to ALL adjustments without having to move anything out of the way first. Plus, a little chrome under the hood never hurts.

Seems to be breathing considerably better, especially at highway speed and passing. Little more power. Cheap and easy project, and kept me out of trouble for an hour.

How bout low-end? Any change?

Pictures? I like shiney things

Mr. Will

|1992 SE-V6 4x4, 2001 LE 3.5|
http://www.netsnapshot.com/pcw/pickalbum?W92PathSE

Tough to tell as fas as low end, at least at constant throttle. But from a dead stop, WOT in first gear to 4 or 5k, there is significant improvment. Can't for the life of me find my digital camera. How does one post pics anyway?

You need to find a server to upload the pictures to. I have a free account at MSN that gives me 3 megs of space. It's really easy.

I don't know why, but I just now realized that Georgia Southern will probably give me some space since I'm a student...

Mr. Will

|1992 SE-V6 4x4, 2001 LE 3.5|
http://www.netsnapshot.com/pcw/pickalbum?W92PathSE

Here at N4W, we dig the do it yourself approach. Sounds like you made a cool mod for cheap!


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