RE: Still more hot air

[Les Singh <Les.Singh@domain.elided>]

>
>>My current 1969 Euro GTV has a cylindrical air cleaner housing which runs
>>the length of the engine. The opening is on the engine side at the front.
>It
>>appears stock with nothing missing. The oval shaped opening points toward
>>the engine and is over the thermostat (more or less). My previous 69 GTV
>had
>>the 1600 style set up and I have not seen any other stock Weber set ups so
>I
>>was wondering if mine is stock?

Brian shorey replied

>i've seen two styles of this cannister - the one you describe and the one i
>bought (but have not yet installed) for my spider.  same basic cannister,
>but in addition to the oval opening there is a round stub for attachment of
>a cold air hose.  another neat thing is that the front of the cannister
>rotates so you can open or close the oval opening, presumably to supplement
>the cold air supply if you're not getting enough.

Hate to disillusion you Brian. Much as we'd like to think that Mr Alfa
thought of us power-hungry leadfoots when designing the air filter housing,
the round stub is really the attachment for a heated-air hose. The other
end of the hose attaches to a similar stub on a flat plate which is bolted
to the induction side engine mount (just below the carburettors) and draws
heated air from around the engine block into the induction tract.
Presumably one sets the air intake to this position for winter, where
people have real winters - Alaska? Sweden? Canada?

Just about the first two things I do are to: 1. detach the choke cable from
the carbs, and 2. take off that warm air hose which is definitely not
needed in our climate. The hose is a nuisance when putting the air filter
assembly on I find. 

BTW our server has had problems so if I haven't replied to a message its
probably because I haven't received it.

Les  back in Wellington after conferencing and climbing volcanoes - what a
buzz!

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