'63 Avanti

[Jeff K]

My '63 R2 has an air cleaner that only has an opening on the bottom. All the other ones that I have seen have a fully enclosed cylinder with the air cleaner partially sticking out from the rear. Why is mine different?

[Bob Preston]

Somebody may have changed it. The design isn’t brilliant because it’s sucking in hot air from deep within the engine compartment. If the whole affair was flipped to put the intake in front, it would be sucking in cooler air. 

[Dwight FitzSimons]

Not sure what you have, but below are '63 & '64 R2 air cleaners.  These were the only air cleaners used on '63 & '64 R2 Avantis.

--Dwight

 

[RS4478]

If it looks like this it may be a R3 air cleaner that pulled cool air through the wheel well