Hey fellas,

First off, yes I am aware that racing beat offers an aftermarket air cleaner for $57. I also know that I am not interested in paying $57 for an air cleaner, when a little ingenuity goes a long way.



So here's the dilemma: I already have a K&N filter for my stock air cleaner, but I am wanting something without all the stupid tubes, snorkels, springs, and flappers all over it. Tonight I decided to tear into the stock air cleaner with my angle grinder (not my first rodeo). After about 45 minutes of battle I get done and look at it, and I think it looks absolutely ridiculous. I very neatly cut the sides out of the stock air cleaner, but it just looks too hacked up to me. I want something cleaner and simpler, and something that doesn't look like I chopped it to pieces...

I measured the OD of my K&N filter and it appears to be about 9 3/8". The height of the filter is about 2 7/8". I also put my calipers on the Nikki and it looks like a 4" air cleaner base would work. However, it appears that 4" is not a common size, specifically when perusing sites like Summit, JCWhitney, and JEGS.

I was however, able to find a couple of air cleaners that come close. Let's examine the $19.99 Mr. Gasket air cleaner....



-10" Diameter (Would work)
-2" Filter Height (A longer stud would probably fix that)
-5 1/8" Neck (@#%@!!!!!!!!)

It appears as though the only sizes these aftermarket air cleaners come in is 5 1/8" and 2 5/8". As usual, that is the size for all of the american applications, so that is all they make.

Does anybody have any bright ideas on how to match this 5 1/8" air cleaner up to a 4" Nikki carb? Thus giving me a new air cleaner without any junk hanging on it, and I can still use the K&N I already have?

Phew...Thanks in advance

Jamie

 

2 options. You could cut the side completely off of the base of the stock air cleaner so that it looks like the Mr Gasket one, or, find another base and a hole saw and drill a series of holes around the base.

Post a pic of what you did with your's.

 

What I did with mine was cut the sides off of the air cleaner except where the clips attach. That gave a good open inlet area while still retaining the stock attachment mechanism.

I don't have a pic tho...

 

GET ONE!!

 

the little 6 5/8 air cleaner i bought years ago came with a black plastic ring that adapted it down and was just right for the stock carb. don't know if u can still buy them or not, that was quite a while back.

 

Buy the chrome air cleaner and then get an adaptor from a speed chop to reduce the opening, you may need to modify the adaptot. Sad thing is you may only end up saving 20 bucks over the racing beat one.

 

This is what I did too, but by the time I got done with it I REALLY didn't like the look of it. It looks exactly like you'd expect from a guy who took to his air cleaner with an angler grinder...

 

i took the triagular shaped holley air cleaner and my stock air cleaner and put them together.

i cut the bottom out of the stock a.c. and miged it to the bottom of the holley a.c.
looking from the top you cant even tell ill post a pic later today