Replicating a Mangusta Air Cleaner

YOU ARE A WILD MAN!!!!    Well done!!!!

Steve

the compliment is appreciated.  Many hours invested in the project.

Just stunning, Denis, absolutely amazing at every step. Even the 'simplest' thing--the paint---I haven't dared touch because there was no way I'd be able to duplicate that original texture....

But what seems so disposable for us Americans (the air cleaner) is one of the truly precious things for the Goose, as distinctive for the engine bay as the Ferrero wood wheel is for the interior...Something that even money can't buy (I think we remember one in the last decade, that in a mis-identified Ebay auction sold for thousands of dollars---even before the value of the Goose itself took off). The convenient ways of fabrication cannot imitate this....Your result is just amazing, spectacular---Lee

Fantastic work Denis!  I love your attention to detail, and especially that you took the time to document the process and share it with us.  I sure wish I had your fabrication skills!

Lee, Garth, Thanks for the compliments. It took a lot of patience. So many passed deadlines.  The spinner took 18 months (IIRC) and the 1st run had the wrong carb opening. The original funnel guy took 2 months and then I had to toss his funnels. The Tool&Die guy was 6 months past the promised date. The paint guy assumed it would be a single day job and it turned into 4 weeks and 3 quarts of hard to get paint plus some secret ingredients he did not divulge. . I mainly did the rough parts, but loved getting my hands dirty working side by side with the guys, mostly fine details were done by specialists. I mainly coordinated and pointed in the right directions. Waited when deadlines were passed.  In the end yes, a very rewarding project.

I am wondering if the air cleaner vacuum motors as per Lee's picture above are standard for Mangustas, or just for non- Euro spec Mangustas?

...good question Seems to be random, and the peculiarity is that (as Steve noted) the motors don't do anything...there is simply no door to actuate, this is the motor that goes to nowhere and does nothing.

   So my guess, it was something adopted with the expectation that it was part of the whole "approved" smog package needed to at least sell to California then, implemented with the smog pump and air injection but not fully implemented on the snorkel choke (and then, wouldn't we need 2 on a goose cleaner? ).  The vacuum motor is itself a Ford part,(C8AZ-9D612-A)  it appears that DeT took 'all of' the approved package as the EPA was brand new and requirements for import at risk...So if you have the "star trek" bell housing, there was probably a white fan smog pump and you should have the motor. https://www.ebay.com/itm/22459...7:g:JXcAAOSwaEVhLo8e

So easy to mount one if you want one. And no worry of it not functioning...Lee