Looks good, Michael! I'm curious, in pic #5, the item on the left is your new flat plate, the center item is the old Stellings base, and the item on the right is the K&N base, right (on second thought I see the old Stellings in the background, what is the center item in photo #5)? The difference between my old "aftermarket" base plate and the K&N looks very much like the difference between the center and right items in pic #5.
Looks like pic #3 shows a bit greater height, how much clearance do you have when you close your hood? I went to WalMart and got some clay from the toy department, put wax paper on the top of the air cleaner, then put clay "globs" on the various points around the air cleaner and at the center of the air cleaner, then wax paper over everything and just closed the hood, measured how thick the globs were after they were squashed down by the hood. I have between 1/8" and 1/4".
Would you mind posting a photo of the flat base, showing the notches you made to clearance the float adjusters (I assume your DP has center-hung floats, right?)? I know that a flat base will not work on my Edelbrock carb, but as I have said I foresee a small (600-650 CFM) Holley DP with center-hung floats in the future for my 5.0 HO engine. I'm just curious if the "notches" you put in the base might provide an entry point for unfiltered air.
[EDIT--never mind, I can see clearly in pic #4, and I didn't even see the second posting at all....clearly just a small notch on the outer edge of the base plate, no unfiltered entry at all, GREAT!]
I think your setup looks GREAT! When I get ready to change out my intake manifold, I plan on downsizing the round filter to a 2" high model, that will give me the .75 inches I need without lowering the engine/transmission. If I want more, then I need to deal with convertible motor mounts and transmission mount and the resulting effect on the headers, not sure that would be worth it. The X-Stream filter top is a great idea (I wonder if there's any information regarding how much additional air it will flow), not to mention that the air entering the scoop will be "rammed" right down onto the filter top. I don't run a turkey pan, but that doesn't mean I don't want to!!
Cheers on a great solution, Michael!
Oh, yeah....any idea of price? I wouldn't need anodized, but if that were the way they were offered I would still be interested. I might also be interested in one without the reliefs for the float-adjusters, might be able to modify it to fit my Edelbrock and get an additional 1/4" of clearance (that's the "height" of the flange on the bottom of my current base plate)--that would allow me to run the 9" X 2 1/4" K&N filter.
Dugly
