Anyone with IR injection run "naked"

OH NO! MTS is going to want those screens?

Let me save him time, Mike, juice strainers. You cut the handles off of them, ok?

I'll bet WalMart is already sold out of them?

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Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
OH NO! MTS is going to want those screens? ...

I was thinking Mic Grills , thus more of a "snow cone" look

No, Doug, you are my hero. I'm doing exactly what you have.

I'm just wondering how someone got a pic of my steel balls though! lol

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Originally posted by mike the snake:
No, Doug, you are my hero. I'm doing exactly what you have.

I'm just wondering how someone got a pic of my steel balls though! lol

Well frankly I think sink strainers have better fluid flow characteristics anyway?

Not sure about steel mesh balls? I hear Teflon is the preferred substitution?

Let me text my expert. She usually answers right back?

I run my stacks naked all the time. Although I have webers not IR, I assume it's much the same. I actually cut out some screen mesh that I place between the flute and where it bolt to the carb body. Its more really to just catch something big that might get sucked in, like a leaf or small dog haha.

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Originally posted by PanTTera:
An unequal length/naked set on a McLaren M20.......

Trumpets huh? This is sorta like a marching band? Does it play 'Tusk'?

http://www.dailymotion.com/vid...original-video_music

Well you know what we used to say? "Lubricate the Trojans"?

Those unequal length IR's are even cooler looking than regular IR's.

There is so much cool sh!t that was going on back then.

Can Am, and Group C Rally were off the hook, not to mention Formula 5000.

Boy, those were the days!

Running lube and Trojans would get kind of expensive there.

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Originally posted by PanteraDoug:

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Originally posted by PanTTera:
An unequal length/naked set on a McLaren M20.......

Trumpets huh? This is sorta like a marching band? Does it play 'Tusk'?

http://www.dailymotion.com/vid...original-video_music

Well you know what we used to say? "Lubricate the Trojans"?

Went and picked up screens (they needed to order more-didn't have 8) and also picked up my "test" air filter.

The filter WILL work, so I ordered 7 more, so I have options now.

HMMMM, which do I use?

The screens complete the "look" I'm going for for sure, but I also think 8 filters might also look pretty cool. Plus, obviously it'll be better for the engine.

The filter is restrictive and the screen you need to clean the bacon fat off of when you take it out of the sink?

How restrictive? Moreso than my old air cleaner setup? More than that single K&N setup in the pic posted earlier?

In my pic, the "bacon fat" you see is just silicon I added before snipping the ring off, I was afraid the screen wouldn't hold it's shape, and it was on one of the large, oversize, too-big for my uses screens. I was "speerminting"

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Originally posted by mike the snake:
Went and picked up screens (they needed to order more-didn't have 8) and also picked up my "test" air filter.

The filter WILL work, so I ordered 7 more, so I have options now.

HMMMM, which do I use?

The screens complete the "look" I'm going for for sure, but I also think 8 filters might also look pretty cool. Plus, obviously it'll be better for the engine.

Traditionally you won't find any adhesives on the screens and rings.

The filters will loose anout 100 hp for you plus or minus.

Of course, I realize that.

I had taken an oversized drain (it was my first one) and smeared silicon around the outside flat area so when I cut the ring off the mesh would stay in place. Tyrns out it wasn't needed.

The one in the pic was just handy.

If I go with screens it'll be exactly like you've done.

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Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
Traditionally you won't find any adhesives on the screens and rings.

The filters will loose anout 100 hp for you plus or minus.

Here's some naked/kissing twin stacks on this McLaren M6B/not sold/Mecum/Monterey/yesterday.........

https://www.mecum.com/lot-deta...-M6B-Can-Am/5-Speed/

Man Ron, I am envious of the opportunities you had to drive and race my favorite cars ever!

You are DA MAN!

I see vids of other Panteras with IR's that sound SO totally insane. Their idle is to die for, and they just sound angry and pi$$sed off.

I've been told my idle is so tame because of my IR's and injection.

Are these other cars just more hopped up? Mine's no slouch, but it doesn't hold a stick to the ones I see in videos.

Many have 180 headers, could that be it?

Would lowering my idle make it more lopey?

Presently it idles around 1000. I feel like it could idle lower if I wanted it to, but I don't want it stalling.

Maybe I just have to wait til next year when I build my new engine. I want it to sound scary.

Presently, mine is scary when you push the go-pedal all the way down, it has a LOT of power, but idling it is very tame.

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Would lowering my idle make it more lopey?

Try lowering the idle rpm. The 180s do add to the sociophile appearance and you probably can get it down to 650 at which point it will start to sound like a marching band.

Boom, boom, bada, bada, boom, boom...sort of.

People will say to you, "what's wrong with you car man?" (mostly the Chevy guys) Then you can just make a face at them, and they will understand, put their tail between their legs and go away.

The Ferrari guys won't even talk to you. In fact, they may put their windshield washers on just sitting there in the parking lot? They do things like that when they are intimidated?