[TPR] Back into the frey, or fray... or frying pan... whatever...

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Shelley, Sam and I just got back from a three day vacation in the woods 
near the south end of Lake Coeur d' Alene, at Heyburn State Park.  A 
small 12'x12' cabin, one room, bunk beds.  Out door flushless toilet 
(read that as _/Outhouse/_), no showers, but luckily a standpipe with 
cool clear fresh water.

It's all good, we've had our showers now that we're home.  :)

Back to the Pantera.
It suddenly hit me sometime yesterday.  I can't put my deck lid on, 
because the air cleaner is now too high.  It's not a matter of wanting 
to put the engine screen on, no... it's a matter of the 14" air filter 
sticks out past the deck lid line by about an inch and a half.  When I 
had the stock manifold on it was no problem, the air filter fit tight 
-under- the decklid.  Now with the aluminum dual-plane FPP-4145 plus a 
half-inch spacer, the whole thing is too tall by about an inch.

DRAT!

It's always something isn't it?  heheheh
Three options come readily to mind.  (not to mention the dogbone air 
cleaner which I honestly just don't like the looks of).
Option 1, offset base plate for the air filter, also the least 
expensive, and possibly can be sourced locally:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-85-3540/?rtype=10

Option 2, Triangular K&N filter assembly, 14" diameter but we all know 
how the geometry of a triangle works, right?  We'd simply point this 
toward the window, leaving the flat edge parallel to and a half inch or 
so from the leading edge of the deck lid:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-60-1470/?rtype=10

Option 3, an oval air cleaner, mount it sideways, valve cover to valve 
cover.  I don't know this option has as much CFM capacity though:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/KNN-66-1510/?rtype=10

I'll be calling around Spokane tomorrow to see if I can source the 
offset base; cheapest and easiest.  Then, I'll begin work on turning my 
one-piece firewall cover into a two-piece firewall cover.  I have no 
reason to believe that won't go well, so then the next item will be to 
get the roll cage rear hoop in place, drill the holes for the shoulder 
bolts (the stock attach point) and maybe bolt it in place.  I say maybe 
because if I can get a friend to help fix the drivers side hoop 
connection holes, maybe I'll take it all in for powder coating and 
install the whole thing.  I also need to look at sourcing some roll bar 
padding.  I guess I better start looking that up now.  :)

I think vacation is over.
Asa Jay

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Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
&  Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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