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2021/04/26 22:56:39 (permalink)
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Air cleaner housing

Did the steel Pinto air cleaner housing ever come with 30mm holes in the side of it? I'm guessing it's a back yard performance trick from back in the day 
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    Re: Air cleaner housing 2021/04/28 22:22:51 (permalink)
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    Very much doubt it... 30mm only, I used to bore 40mm holes in mine across the back. It must've worked cause the filter had 4 circles of dirt when time to change it.
    Edit.. I remember once I was trying for more carby noise so I cut the whole air cleaner housing back right up to the filter, didn't work well as the strength disappeared but sure got heads scratching at a car meet 😁

    Should start a thread about forgotten mods we used to do in the good days of modifying these cars.. or doing a temporary fix that lasts for ever..
    post edited by martymexico - 2021/04/28 22:29:07
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    Re: Air cleaner housing 2021/04/29 18:29:58 (permalink)
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    "Should start a thread about forgotten mods we used to do in the good days of modifying these cars.. or doing a temporary fix that lasts for ever.."
     
    That will be a loooong thread.
     
    These days seems to be ripping off any mods and chucking them, and going back to OEM. 
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    Re: Air cleaner housing 2021/11/20 17:53:07 (permalink)
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    ....water injection and a fist full of advance and endless fiddling with the advance springs.  :)
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    Re: Air cleaner housing 2021/11/21 20:53:38 (permalink)
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    would electronic ignition fall into this category?
    Scorcher  and luminition being changed back to oldschool points?
     
    Maybe in a few years ITB's and bike carbs will go the way of skoggs, color coded dashs and sunroofs.
    And why does every car have to have a 'tow'' seatbelt hanging off the front now?
     
     
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    Re: Air cleaner housing 2021/11/21 21:26:25 (permalink)
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    Side pipes and Monaro rear spoilers, can't forget the 6ft cb antenna on the roof so when driving in low slung carparks the antenna scraps the ceiling like a Dodgem car !!
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    Re: Air cleaner housing 2021/11/22 23:08:01 (permalink)
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    ................ and filling the home-made pre-airfilter box with crushed ice to get more molecules down into the cylinders for more power on hot days !

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