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Also…. It’s important that the Carter AFB’s internal vacuum passage is clear and pulling warm intake manifold air up the choke tube and into the choke housing… This is critical on AFB’s for the choke valve to open in a timely fashion! If a Carter AFB carburetor, as used on a Studebaker Avanti, is set up properly, ‘band aids’ such as choke pull offs or electric choke conversions are completely unnecessary.

The idle speed ‘kick up’ is a good idea… Studebaker offered a retrofit kit for Avantis with A/C that accomplished the same thing….. However, the GM choke pull off shouldn’t be necessary if an R2 carb is adjusted and working properly, the intake manifold crossover passage is clear, the correct intake manifold gaskets are installed, and the heat riser valve is in place and working properly.

My ‘85 Avanti has an air filter assy similar to what you describe…It has a standard GM dual snorkel filter housing, which has twin flexible hoses attached, that pass through the L&R inner fender skirts down to holes in the lower valance… which have screens at their front keeping “rocks” out!

Your Avanti is AWESOME!!!!

I’ll bet Nelson Bove may know something about this… Hope he sees this thread!

If nothing else it’s very interesting information! Anyone else out there hear of this ‘64 electric fuel pump option?

I’ve never heard of that option… and I definitely question it. Additional info would be nice about this.

Thanks Nelson…. A factory tilt steering column is a complication I would never add to my ‘63…. If I happened to stumble upon one, I’d definitely pass it on to a ‘64 Avanti owner who felt the need for one…… As I mentioned in another thread under ‘Avanti Parts’, factory Stude Avanti tilt steering columns have much in common with early to mid sixties GM columns (same internals), and it occurred to me that a crafty person may be able to combine the GM tilt column with a standard Stude Avanti column, and create a ‘hybrid’. (or would it be a ‘Frankenstein’ ???)

Ha ha…… PLEASE don’t cut up your beautiful Avanti to find out for sure!!!!

Yes, with the complete Hawk drum brake system which a prior owner had installed, coupled with a stock Stude Avanti brake booster, allowed that Avanti to stop on dime, with light pedal pressure. (11” front drums, 10” rear — all self energizing.)

Sounds good AG-R3…. But I’m thinking your Avanti is s ‘B’ series, with ignition key on column ?

There’s another thread on this forum from someone who wants to find a Stude Avanti ‘tilt’ steering column. This reminds me of an acquaintance who, years ago, purchased a ‘67 Avanti ll just to obtain a tilt column which he removed and installed into his ‘ultra mint’ ‘64 Stude Avanti! The conventional column from his ‘64 went into the Avanti ll…. which he promptly resold!! PS… There’s a YouTube video (My Car Story) featuring this ‘64 Avanti named (something like) ‘64 Studebaker Avanti, supercharged and Turquoise.

Yes… you are definitely on the right track now… Best of luck!! PS…. If anyone simply HAS to have the earlier tilt steering column used by Studebaker, try to find a ‘61-‘66 GM tilt column as used in Buick, Olds, Chev, Pontiac….. I’ll bet a ‘crafty’ person may be able to combine a non- tilt Stude Avanti column with a tilt GM column and create a ‘hybrid’… an interesting project!

If you have a ‘72, and the ignition key is on the column, it’s a generic Saginaw. (Hard to believe steering wheel adapters for that column are hard to find)

Yes … definitely collapsible column. In a front collision, steering shaft will ‘telescope’ into itself.

Gee… if this Avanti is “decent”, I wonder what a really nice one looks like????

Hello Bobcat!…. The tilt steering column Studebaker used in Avantis, as well as the tilt column used in early ‘A’ series Avanti ll’s, was a tilt column common to mid sixties GM vehicles ( Buick, Olds ) and although replacement parts from those GM tilt columns will interchange with the tilt column Studebaker used, the columns themselves are not directly interchangeable. Around ‘70- ‘71, when the ‘B’ series Avanti ll’s came to be, an entirely different tilt steering column was used. This later (Saginaw) column had the ignition switch mounted in the column, and is still very common these days, as it was used in ‘B’ series Avanti’s at least thru ‘85, and also used in ‘70-‘90+ GM, Chrysler, and AMC vehicles.

For $32K I would hope it would be “decent”!!!

That makes good sense!

Look for an early ‘A’ series Avanti ll being parted out… Several of those used that same column.

Are you lucky enough to have original Rochester carburetors on that Caribbean twin-four intake manifold?

I’m sure glad my 1956 Golden Hawk (56J) is factory stick o/d with power steering…. Our resident 56J guru indicated that only about 150 or so were equipped that way!!

I like the updated seat belts!

I purchased a Custom Autosound unit for my ‘83 Avanti about 4 years ago, replacing a ‘dead’ Blaupunkt. It ‘s still working fine!

Red also means that.. YOU ARE CORRECT!!