dorpaul wrote:
>I am installing new & different air filters on my SU H6's. With the my new
>large filters mounted I can tell that the new chrome filter for the front
>carb maybe too close to it's inner fender. When the engine torques and moves
>in it's compartment it may hit the inner fender.
> The distance between the fender and the front air filter is about 1". How
>much room between these surfaces should I allow?
>
The fellow who owned my car from '64-'98 ran a few SCCA races way back
in the days before I was born. He had a similar problem with the fit of
larger-than-stock air filters, and solved it the way I've heard some
other club racers did -- with a Big Fender Hammer.
My long-ago bashed dimple allows about 1 1/2" of clearance for my K&N
housing. Before the bashing, I'd guess there was only 1/2" clearance.
I'm not endorsing fender bashing, and if I were you I would wait and see
what happens when you run the car. Your 1" might be plenty.
Steven "what you call a bashed-in dent, I call patina" Newell
Littleton, CO USA
'62 TR4
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