This has been discussed MANY times on V8buick.com Originals are going for pretty good $$$. There is an alternative. Not original, but OK.
I won’t go through all the gory details but I suspect my wife threw out the base to my star wars air cleaner. I can’t find it and she doesn’t remember and I can’t find it anywhere.
My question; has anyone used a different base, say from an edelbrock air cleaner, to use with the star wars air cleaner? I suppose I could try and make one but I have never fab’d metal and would not do a good job.
Suggestions? Anyone please. I am sick over this.
This has been discussed MANY times on V8buick.com Originals are going for pretty good $$$. There is an alternative. Not original, but OK.
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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.
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
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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
(6)65 Wildcats; 65 Riviera; 65 Special Wagon; 65 GS; 65 Skylark; 67 Wildcat; 67 California GS; (2)68 GS400; 69 GS 350; 70 GS Stage 1; Wanted: time to fix 'em ☮
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.
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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
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