Very nice work on the air cleaner Mike.

The big oval Ford air cleaners have been my go to on multiple carb setups for years. They flow so much better than individual air cleaners. I usually ended up just using the chrome steel ones because normally I had heavily modify the bases to fit the Tri-Power setups.

When I built the 57 Plymouth that’s what I used on the Hemi. I never really liked the way the chrome steel Air Cleaner looked with the finned aluminum valve covers though. When I changed out the Tri Power for dual quads I finally bit the bullet and ordered an aluminum lid. It was powered coated black wrinkle with the fins shinny. After stripping the powder coating (soaking it in acetone works great for that by the way) I found that the quality of the aluminum wasn’t that great so rather than trying to polish it out I decided to have it Powder coated with “Chrome”. The so called chrome actually looks a lot more like polished aluminum than chrome and matched the valve covers very well.

Naturally when I did the PS conversion it turned out I couldn’t keep the aluminum valve covers so after changing those out to chromed steel the chrome steel lid also went back on and the aluminum lid is now shelf art at least till the next project.



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