The Canton filter easily clears the CAT headers on my 5.0 engine.
Been there, blown that up too. when I installed the original remote adaptor
onto my NEW motor for its FIRST start,
I gave it a little more turn to "align the adaptor output" to where I wanted it.
when I started the motor, it ran for about 30 seconds and puked the adaptor
and oil onto my neighbor (I caught this all on video too )
Then for the next stroke of luck, I went down to the local speed shop and
had to order another adaptor.... It came 3 days later and I installed it and
"tightened" it up. Started the motor and OIL EVERYWHERE. How lucky
can you be? The adaptor was tight, but not straight. In fact the pipe thread
into the filter was about 10 degrees off perpendicular and only one side of the
adaptor was sealed to the block. I had my machinist chuck it up, true up the
face and turn the o-ring groove back to spec. Installed it and it was fine.
I was never comfortable with how the spin tight adaptors aligned so I
replaced it with the Canton PN #22-595 Ford applications with 3/4-16 Thread & a
2-5/8" standard seal. The CAT #5 header is angled slightly back and clears the
adaptor easily.
Curtis
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> Been there, done that. The extra 1/4 turn (or maybe it was a little
> more, I forget exactly) means you take 0.015" off the face of the
> adapter, but without jigging it all up on a mill or lathe, you can't cut
> the O-ring groove any deeper. The rubber doesn't have any place to go,
> and it doesn't really compress very much, Maybe mine just had a stress
> riser, maybe I cranked it on too hard... I torque the thing up, it sits
> there for about two seconds in the proper orientation as I gaze at it in
> satisfaction, and then it goes 'pop' onto the garage floor.
>
> I was lucky. If you're not lucky, like a buddy of mine, then it goes
> 'pop' as you enter a turn just off the back straight at your local
> track, and you spray down a whole bunch of Mobil-1 where the marshals
> can't see it.
>
> Curtis Fisher remarked that he had the Canton adapter, but he didn't say
> what kind of headers... can you fill us in Curtis?
>
> Theo
>
> Bruce McGuire wrote:
>
> >Well, you're not really stuck with the orientation of adapters like the
> >Trans-Dapt.
> >The filter is 16 threads per inch.
> >If you need another 1/4 turn, you just have to machine .015 off of the
> >adapter. : )
> >
> >I have the Canton adapter.
> >It's very nice, but I don't think it will work with headers except the
> >Cannon type.
> >Bruce
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