[Fot] Cold Air "Boxes" - Historical Question

Chuck Arnold triosan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 14:51:28 MDT 2008


TR5-6 with PI have the equivelent of a cold air box!

On 7/30/08, Group44TR7 at aol.com <Group44TR7 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I am not sure that I am using the correct technical term for this item.
> What
> I am referring to is the modification and/or replacement so that cooler air
> from outside the engine compartment is being provided through the air
> intake
> system.
>
>        Does anyone know the approximate date as to when this modification
> would have been addressed in SCCA regulations for DP and EP classed cars?
> The
> Group 44 TR7 does not have an cold air box, however the Huffaker TR7
> (ex-Lee
> Mueller) has one. Would this modification been allowed at the 1976 runoffs
> in
> which both car competed against each other ?
>
>    I do recall ever seeing this cold box setup on pre 1972 production
> vintage racecars. Just wondering when this happened so that when the
> current
> "vintage racers" are reclassifed into "ancient race cars", and TR7 become
> vvintage
> race cars, that we know when this happened. :)
>
> Cary
>
>
>
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