Sick over my star wars air cleaner base

Shakadula51

Shakadula51

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I won’t go through all the gory details but I suspect my wife threw out the base to my star wars air cleaner. I can’t find it and she doesn’t remember and I can’t find it anywhere.

My question; has anyone used a different base, say from an edelbrock air cleaner, to use with the star wars air cleaner? I suppose I could try and make one but I have never fab’d metal and would not do a good job.

Suggestions? Anyone please. I am sick over this.
 
This has been discussed MANY times on V8buick.com Originals are going for pretty good $$$. There is an alternative. Not original, but OK.
 
Yes i did a search

telriv said:
This has been discussed MANY times on V8buick.com Originals are going for pretty good $$$. There is an alternative. Not original, but OK.
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What I was wondering is does someone know of a specific base from some other source that will work.

Thanks for your reply.
 
but I suspect my wife threw out the base to my star wars air cleaner. I can’t find it and she doesn’t remember and I can’t find it anywhere.


hanh.

while an air cleaner BASE is exactly the kind of thing a woman would parse as "junk" and wouldn't pay much attention too, if she did remember it, that's exactly the kind of thing she'd lie about not remembering. :D

no, i don't know what the alternate base is.

there was a reproduction unit being made some time ago, i'm not sure if he's still in business.

http://www.buickperformanceclub.com/67GSaircleaner.htm
 
I would like to do some comparisons with Star vs some other air cleaners I have. some pictures comparing the 67 430 air cleaner vs the star wars job may be instructive on
how to mod the former to fit.

Ted
 
Ted Nagel said:
I would like to do some comparisons with Star vs some other air cleaners I have. some pictures comparing the 67 430 air cleaner vs the star wars job may be instructive on
how to mod the former to fit.

Ted
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Ted, Are you asking me for pics of my star wars air cleaner? If not, then I am not following.
 
What I see as a problem with the Performance Group air cleaner is the base. The base in the Buick version is formed to fit tightly over a Rochester carb and to use a smaller diameter filter than you would usually find. I can understand how loosing a base would be a problem. The hood clearance in the '67 GS is probably 1/2", so nothing to work with. I would look at BBC Corvette bases where you might find one that sits low over the carb. Then you will still have the work of fabricating a ring to take the filter and fitting that ring on the Corvette base.
 
I have many air cleaners, I started to compare them to my own 67 "Star Wars" air cleaner base.
There is a possibility the 67 430 air cleaner base could be modified to work for the "Star Wars" one.
I just like to check these things out.
 
Ted Nagel said:
I have many air cleaners, I started to compare them to my own 67 "Star Wars" air cleaner base.
There is a possibility the 67 430 air cleaner base could be modified to work for the "Star Wars" one.
I just like to check these things out.
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Thanks Bob and Ted. I will keep searching and will check out the corvette forum. I am also going to search my yard and house again. Maybe it is in an unmarked storage bin. We did a fall purge last year and maybe just misplaced rather than thrown away.

Thanks again.
 
Going to close this out with apoligies to my wife........

I found my Star Wars Air Cleaner Base. It was hiding in plain site under my workbench.

As I was searching for a can of nuts to hold my seats in place, I saw my air cleaner base that I searched for at least 5 times. It was right there in front of me the whole time. I just needed to look for something else. Anyway, the base fits my new auto zone quadajet carb as does my star wars air cleaner. I feel whole again cause not using my SWAC has bothered me for years.

So to closeout this thread I wanted to say that I found nothing else to fit. The only option was to pay the parasites hundreds of dollars for a replacement base. Never checked out if someone could frabracate it.

Thanks to everyone that helped me.
 
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