I have the LCE K&N air filter adapter with my weber carb. Now im starting to have second thoughts about it. The air cleaner looks nice, but the stud keeps braking, luckily the head of the bolt in the bracket hasnt fallen into my carb to destroy my engine, plus I feel like the air cleaner set up just collects all the hot air from the engine bay; whereas, the stock air cleaner has tubing running towards to radiator to fresh cool air outside the engine bay and the filter diameter is bigger too. Does anyone else agree with my logic? Or am I missing something...........

 

Another note, the stock cleaner is enclosed so it may stay cleaner from dirt, and defiantly drier from any water splashing in the engine bay, LCE sells an adapter plate that lets you use the stock air cleaner with a weber carb im thinking about buying.

 

I didn't really like the LC K&N open air cleaner setup, seems like a really dumb design, unnecessarily difficult to remove for tuning / adjustment, and if you're running an LCE header underhood temps are rather high...if you're still running the air injection system even more so. As I had blocked the path of the stock air intake for a second battery by the time I decided to ditch the LC air cleaner, I've been working on a cold air intake through the cowl. Seems to work good, but I've still got some heat shield fabrication / improvements before it's what I would call done. I don't think you'll lose much HP going back to the stock unit; if it weren't for the second battery that's what I would have done.

 

oh nice set up, im guessing the heat shielding is for tht part tht goes over the exhaust manifold huh? Yeah I have a Headman header on my truck, wrapped it once, never again lol. That hat on your carb was something else i was looking into, but I wasn't sure where to route the filter to. What kinda filter are u fitting under the cowl?

 

Yeah, that photo was a little old. Here's what it looks like now. The header is mostly covered. Still wanting to build a spark plug wire tray / heat shield to cover what's left of the header and clean up the wrap on the intake. The filter is the big stainless cylinder in the older photo, covered up in the newer photo. https://www.spectreperformance.com/a...filter-housing. Works well with Spectre 3" flex hose and and the Weber hat. It's working fine, but I wouldn't really recommend unless you don't have any other options.