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Re: sprite air cleaners

To: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: sprite air cleaners
From: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:32:35 -0800
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Organization: Snowdon Racing
References: <003901be5a7e$c53952c0$50a3acce@b1pxof71>
Reply-to: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Robert Duquette wrote:
> 
> Thanks Tim!
> 
> It's impossible to tell from your photo if those dents are there or not.
> Thanks for the effort though!  I'm not sure if someone clamped down on them
> for some reason, or if that is the way they are supposed to look.  As I had
> mentioned, one of the dents is very cleanly shaped, while the other was not
> so crisp in shape.  No-one else has given their opinion yet.
> 
> My attempt at a sketch of the air cleaner cannister is at:
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette/cannister.htm
> or I can e-mail the 2k gif to anyone who can make a comparison.
> 
> Robert Duquette
> Ottawa ON Canada
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette
> RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca
> '65 RHD BRG Sprite
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tim psensky <spit71fire@yahoo.com>
> To: RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
> Date: February 16, 1999 9:25 PM
> Subject: sprite air cleaners
> 
> >Hi,
> >I don't recall dents on my 66 sprite, but I havn't owned the car for 5 or 6
> years.  I don't have a good photo either.
> >Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
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My air cleaners have one dent in each of the snorkle portions. Is that
what you have? I assumed they were damaged by the DPO. But maybe they
were that way originally, maybe to cause turbulence in the airstream
coming into the carburetors. Just my 2 cents

Mark Snowdon, 69 Sprite

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