Air Breather Upgrade

[Papermaker]

I have a 1983 CJ7 - running a Summit Kit Engine (Chev 350) with an Edelbrock 4 barrel (does have the electric choke). You can see from the picture, the current air cleaner is of small diameter and thickness.
Would like to run one of the K&N (see picture). Not sure which part number to order that will fit and not have to do any cutting to the Jeep hood.


Any help appreciated!

 

[PistolDave]

If you are using you jeep offroad or in bad weather, I would not run any open element air filter. I also do not know if it ever gets very dusty in Minnesota, but I would not run a K&N anything in an area where dust might be an issue. There is a reason K&N filters flow more air than paper, and that is because they do not filter the really fine dust all that well. I have seen a lot of vehicles over the years in my area (West Texas) that were running K&N filters. On any of these you could run your finger around the inside of the intake/carb/whatever and you would pick up a coat of extremely fine powdery dust on your finger that was making it thru the filter. May not be an issue in your area. A cheap source for a closed side factory air cleaner assembly would be any 5.7 Chevy TBI pickup that used the single stud air filter assembly (88-95). You can find these at wrecking yards here for under 10$. They are ugly but work great and should fit your carb.

 

[Papermaker]

Thank you

 

[Lumpy Grits]

Forget that K&N. Stay with a paper filter.
LG