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I saw in a post earlier today about the K&N filters and just thought I would share with you what I did. I had a conical K&N filter off my Mustang (The supercharger came with one already) and came into my new 78 280. I didn't want it to go to waste so I went to Home Depot and started rooting through their plumbing aisle. Turns out that they have a rubber 90 degree curved elbow made out of rubber with a 4 in mouth diameter and 3 in general diameter with the clamps too. Cost: $7.84. Remove the clamps and it fits perfectly through the stock hole in the radiator core support. Then got a 3 in piece of round PVC and a 4 in piece of round PVC. Cost $3.10. The 3 in piece was cut off to about 3 inches length and inserted into the original Z air boot (pre airflow meter) The mouth of the rubber elbow fits nicely around the stock Z air boot (pre airflow meter) and the 3 in PVC is there so the larger rubber elbow has something to clamp down on. The 3 in piece of PVC was cut off at 2 inches length and inserted into the other end of the rubber elbow just behind the front grille. The K&N has a 4 in diameter too so it just slipped right on. The K&N was purchased from a local performance parts store for $29. All in all it cost less than $50 to do the ram air system that Motorsport is selling for $125. I know there are some purists out there that think this is hokey (I believe was the word used before)
but it's cheap and just as functional as the higher priced unit. Just thought I would share that with fellow Z owners. Will be getting some pictures of my entire restoration on the net soon and you can see the filter setup. Will keep those interested posted.
Regards
Tim McGovern
but it's cheap and just as functional as the higher priced unit. Just thought I would share that with fellow Z owners. Will be getting some pictures of my entire restoration on the net soon and you can see the filter setup. Will keep those interested posted.
Regards
Tim McGovern