A friend of mine had restored/customized a V12 Jag for his sister. The engine
had six webers with foam elements. The day his sister was supposed to pick up
the car he brought it into work to show it off. He had the hood up with the
motor running, I was standing there when he blipped the throttle there was a
backfire that caught one of the foam elements on fire. The fire spread to the
tuck and roll inner hood lining he had installed (not a great idea). He
finally got the hood slammed shut while someone ran for an extinguisher but not
before the whole engine bay was alight. When his sister arrived on a flight
from the east coast she was not sympathetic or amused.
Frank Marrone
marrone@wco.com
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From: Allan Connell, Jr.[SMTP:alcon@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 5:08 PM
To: Windsor Owens; tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: torker& carter AFB
IMHO,
DO NOT use the Edelbrock triangular shaped (with foam element,) air cleaner
on your car. When I first got my Tiger, it had one of these air cleaners.
I took it to a friend's shop so he could do some minor tinkering and
tweaking I did not have time for. After some adjustments, he went to start
the car and the foam element caught fire. Thank the lucky stars that he had
a Halon fire extinguisher close at hand. Again, MHO, but stay away from
this filter set-up if you can.
Regards,
Allan
B9472373
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Windsor Owens
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 12:48 PM
To: 'tigers@autox.team.net'
Subject: torker& carter AFB
I have a torker alum. intake manifold with a carter AFB sitting on top of it
on my 289. Does anyone know if the edelbrock triangular shaped air filter
or the tiger re-pro (cast aluminum) air filter will fit on the carter and
clear the hood?
Otherwise, I'll have to put the chickenwire back on...
Windsor
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