"El Mongrel" '65 Formula S Restomod
You may be wondering what became of the dual snorkel air filter idea. Well I did finish it but it is one of two non Mopar parts on the whole car. Dont be a hater, I did try to use a swap meet dual snorkel housing off a Dodge truck (supposedly) that was just plain fugly. You can see it in the first engine pic. It was a neat idea if I could pull it off but it wasnt going to be done with that monstrosity. During one of my many forays to the Pick-n-Pull I was wandering down the Ford isles lifting hoods so see what kind of ideas I could glean from the factory engineers. Car after car had the same single snorkel air filter housings and I picked one up to toss it out of the way. Hey that is kind of light I thought. After flipping the top over I found the lid was aluminum. Cool. Then I started looking at the housing and the angle of the snorkel. A light bulb, yeah probably a 40 watt, went off in my head. I bet if I took another snorkel and cut a hole right here that that would solve the issue with the snorkel hoses draping over the fan on my fugly housing. So I bought two housing and headed home. A couple hours latter and my new housing adorned the top of my motor. After removing the snorkel from my parts housing I laid out where I wanted the new one installed. I cut two holes with a hand drill and appropriate sized hole saw, connected them with a cutoff wheel to complete the opening, rolled the edge to give the new opening some strength and used some small bolts and fender washers instead of the factory rivets to attach both snorkels. Heck that was easy. Some days latter I decided to strip the paint off the lid and polished it out. It took several more trips to the Pick-n-Pull to find the accordion hoses as they are rectangular on the snorkel end and 3 round on the other. Most of them were hammered so I kept an eye out on my future junking forays until I found two in acceptable shape. The core support fittings are both off Mopar products. One is rectangular and came off a Dodge pickup and the other is round off one of the 80s land yatchs. The reason for the different shapes was to utilize existing holes in the core support. Remember - no sheet metal cutting.
Housing prior to paint
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