Re: Proper air cleaner for 352 V8?

Posted by Ross On 2011/3/19 7:50:32

I beg to differ. Actually the filter is rather too clean and shiney to match the engine compartment--compare to the heater housing.

It is a 56 Clipper Custom/Executive filter. You know all of the single 4bbl filters will interchange in the time it takes to change your t-shirt and I have personally swapped them here and there for many reasons practical and aesthetic. And often because the twin snorkel had been pilfered for a hot rod project.

But Packard was not a third world manufacturing concern and did not throw air filters up in the air and then drive cars under them. The installations were documented in the parts book and even in the sales brochures.

The 56 2 bbl setup and filter I put on my 55 Custom back in 1979 in the hopes of better gas mileage probably has a boat load of patina by now, but its still not right. All of these cars have been heavily diddled with in the last 50+ years.