Originally posted by Corvette64
Firstoff, what car? Be careful because the Edelbrock with an air cleaner will not fit under the hood of many of the mid sixties muscle cars. Secondly, the Edelbrock is a square bore carb and your Quadrajet is a spreadbore. You will have to run an adapter to use the edelbrock on you manifold which will raise it up even more.

The air cleaner designs that MUST be used on an Edelbrock are the types that raise the air cleaner base above just slightly below the carb. This is done to clear the choke, linkage and fuel inlet fitting which is wider that the inside diameter of a 14" air filter. In other words the air cleaner will not fit around the carb because it is too wide. The air cleaner has to sit above the carb which causes interference problems with stock musclecar hoods.
actually, on his performer intake are both square & spreadbore patterns...either will fit.
Also, you can use a drop base aircleaner now on Edelbrock carbs if you use either a banjo fitting, or there is a hardline available for it also that reroutes the fuel line