Early 1972 Pantera wt full screen engine cover and holley carb QUESTION

Adam, know there are THREE different screens around, two OEM, and all with different heights over the carb. One is a full screen that came on '71s (mostly), the second was later with a 1" raised center of solid metal, and the third is either of the first two with the center cut away, to be replaced by a 14"OD x 3" high drop-center aftermarket air cleaner with two side screens that result from cutting stock screens. And all can be either chromed or black painted.

There were a few aftermarket screens made with a 2-1/2" high solid center made by Kirk Evans(?) but I haven't seen those recently. And early and late screens only ft those cars as the dimensions of the solid side pieces changed when DeTomaso took the project back.

Edelbrock chrome air cleaner on top of a Holley Demon 625 CFM carb similar to the Edelbrock AVS and a Edelbrock Performer Manifold.

Solid screen that has the bend on it and it fits into the channel on the firewall wt the 2 solid metal ends. Just getting the car back together and will have to mount  the screens in place and see what my clearance is.

If you have the stock manifold or the common Edelbrock performer or something similar, you can use a dropped base air cleaner and get a 2 inch tall, 14 inch round air cleaner assembly to fit underneath the Early all-screen cover that you have

if you have an air gap manifold, you are out of luck. A blue thunder manifold can be made to work, also but I found it took a bit of effort

Larry

Exactly what Larry says...Edelbrock Performer, dropped base 14" air cleaner with 2" air filter provides about a 1/8" screen clearance.

Ron

I found that I needed a 2 1/2 inch filter element to completely clear the choke plate's operation on my Holley/Edelbrock install, but the assembly would still fit under the stock center screen.

Another Pantera buddy used rubber tubing and longer bolts...

to bring the rear of the screen up to level with the closed rear deck and to allow even more clearance for taller filters or different fitments.

@panttera posted:

Another Pantera buddy used rubber tubing and longer bolts...

to bring the rear of the screen up to level with the closed rear deck and to allow even more clearance for taller filters or different fitments.

when fitting the new blue thunder intake, I also raised my center screen, probably no more than 1/4 of an inch. But I also reworked the side cover brackets.

I overlaid the stock brackets with sheet metal triangles that were a little bit taller, which allowed a higher mounting of the side covers, making them even with the raised center. Probably need to note this is an early car with the side covers held on by screws.

thing to take note of if raising the center section is to make sure it is level to the rear deck lid, and ideally no taller than it, also.

Larry