Cowl Air Cleaner

[KevinW]

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I believe the notches in the snorkle was what they were using throughout 69-72 production,and possibly available for a few years afterwards..It's possible there was more then one manufacturer of these and one had a slightly different design then the other.
Your's sounds like a later Gm designed licensed piece to me that is not exactly true in detail to the original design.

I should explain that when I say repop,to me that means a later on manufactured piece,(GM licensed or not),that has lost some of it's original details during translation,to the original part once used on the assembly line.
I understand if others don't classify them that way.

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MR70, I hear what you are saying. The thing that has me stumped is the 1" vent tube (used in BB applications). All the repops I have seen have the 2 45 deg tube and are smoothly formed. As you can see in the pic, mine is not I bought this back in the early 80s before the repopers were running. And it was well used before I got it. It has the cut ring. I want to put this up on ebay soon and want to make sure I state the correct origins of this. Opinions welcome! Thanks

[Unreal]

The guy I bought my original from, also had an NOS one with the ridge (still in the box, but I never checked for a date code. It had the radiused 90* elbow like the pic above. Can't speak to the notch, as I was not educated enough to know about it. (thanks to Rick, I learned a little more)

[Tommy_Mathison]

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Camaros with ZL-2 hoods had a flat bottom until about Sept '69. The grooved bottom AC was phased in at that time for the rest of the model year, 11A, 1969. All of the repros have the grooved bottoms.

Jerry

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Just to be clear, there is a flat bottom repro available.

[ssl78]

I was at The parts Place the other day and seen the repro flat bottom air cleaner it looked good.

[L78steve]

Would someone please post a pic. of the notch?

[John Brown]

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I was at The parts Place the other day and seen the repro flat bottom air cleaner it looked good.

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I figured they were repopping them when I saw the supposedly nos one on e-bay a while back.

[Mr70]

Someone approached me with a repop part for sale recently,and said it was NOS.
I said,"That looks Taiwan to me".
He replied.."That's what I said,NOS..Not Original Supply.
I couldn't walk away fast enough..