1970 dual snorkel air cleaner

[Jeff H]

How about looking at it from a different point of view. Would all CKO stamped engines receive the dual snorkel air cleaner? Because the CKO was destined to go in Chevelles, Camaros and Nova's would the assembled engines be sitting with the air cleaner's already installed waiting for a car to go in? My L78 Camaro was built in Jan of 70 but the motor is late Oct. Would they have changed out the air cleaner on a motor that sat around for almost 3 months?

[Mr70]

I believe air cleaners were the final dressing,so they wouldn't be sitting on engines early on.
Added on after the carburetor,which was not put on until after the engine was assigned to a body sequence number.
Aside from the Camaro,not every CKO engine received them.
And TH400 vehicles also recieved the Dual,stamped CTY for Novas and CRR for LS-6 Chevelles.

[70CitrusZ]

[ QUOTE ]
I believe air cleaners were the final dressing,so they wouldn't be sitting on engines early on.
Added on after the carburetor,which was not put on until after the engine was assigned to a body sequence number.
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... Interesting.. I had always assumed engines were complete carb (air cleaner)to pan, but since there are instructions in the assembly manual for carb installation, that makes sense..

Also back to the air cleaner in the nova, I was going on what I'd seen on cars, and I've never seen any L78 nova pics or cars with anything other than an open element
cleaner. does anyone have any photos?

[Schonyenko2]

I only have three pictures of mine. One through the windshield of a 70 GTO that we sent to a friend who was in nam at the time, and a couple when it was a wadded up pos.

[mnyenko]

There was a citrus L78 70 Nova 06A with a dual aircleaner at N.N.N. nationals 05. Photos of all the cars were posted at www.Stevesnovasite.com Earl

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

We believe the change over occured in Jan of '70, along with many other changes to the Novas.

[L78steve]

What other changes?