Hey Bernie, do they make a 45 degree AN fitting with a male thread on one end? You could eliminate the nipple that way and maybe get some more clearance by attaching the 45 directly into the carb feed tube. Pics can be deceiving but it looks like a lot of fittings, you gotta do whatever it takes, but can you turn the first 45 a bit and attach the filter directly to it and eliminate the second 45 and unions?
A spacer will give you an inch more clearance but I think they should be used for performance reasons. Just my opinion, I'm not an expert.
Yeah It all fits under the hood, just. I'd like to have a car with a hole in the hood and a blower sticking out but I don't have a rich uncle and I didn't marry money. Sigh.
Bluebird- I just looked at the catalog and they do have a 45 degree AN 6 male/female fitting, so that might work (male end fits to the inlet and female fits to the filter). I think what I may do is use two 90 degree AN 6 male/female connectors to form a "step" over the front portion of the manifold. I've done some quick measurements and it looks like that will give me the clearance needed over the manifold and still stay below the bottom of the air filter assembly. That set up will at least give me something that is "parallel" in appearance. Thankfully Summit Racing is only about 45 minutes from me, so I'll probably head down there in the next day to get what I need and return the stuff that isn't helping (third trip trying to figure out this fuel plumbing issue). I'll certainly post some pics after I get this knocked out. Thanks again for the input.
