[Tigers] Air cleaner & horsepower

[Teepen, Jere]

I have a similar set up in my Tiger.  One day I needed an air filter and
housing rather suddenly (another story...) and bought a cheap 9" from Kragen
Auto Parts.  Then, while looking through the Summit catalog, I saw the K&N
filter top.  I bead blasted the cheap chrome base and painted it black to
match the K&N top.  Result?  With the paper filter element that came with the
filter housing and the K&N top there was only a 5 horsepower penalty with and
without the air filter on the chassis dyno.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Ganz [mailto:sganz at pacbell.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 3:48 PM
To: Teepen, Jere; Smit, Theo; Allan Ballard; Tiger's Den
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Air cleaner & horsepower

My tiger has a small round K&N with the K&N filter-lid or what ever they call
it. It seems to have a lot of open surface area so I'm sure it helps but
likely
not a big deal on the old tired stock 260 that's in the car. It looks like it
has some rubbing issues but seems to fit under the hood with a bit of
finessing.
This is on a F4B with a Holley 600.

Sandy



----- Original Message ----
From: "Teepen, Jere" <jteepen at usatoday.com>
To: "Smit, Theo" <Theo.Smit at dynastream.com>; Allan Ballard
<aballard at ix.netcom.com>; Tiger's Den <tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tue, July 3, 2012 3:41:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Air cleaner & horsepower

Me again.

The results of Tim Ronak's use of the device mentioned below (Stub Stack?)
was
virtually no change IIRC (questionable).

Tim was still on this e-mail list at one time.  Are you still there?  Can you
confirm/dispute my recollection?

Jere