305 ram air snorkel

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LukeZ

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Anyone ever seen a ram-air 305 air cleaner like this before? Is it home made?
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Its in a Malibu I saw on Craigslist.
https://southjersey.craigslist.org/cto/d/1978-chevy-malibu-classic/6478051316.html



Ive seen similar setups (stock from the factory, though) on H.O. Montes and Camaros, but nothing that looks as good as whats on that Malibu.
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Streetbu

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That's factory. Just most people throw the plastic piece out...
 

airboatgreg

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Bottom 2 factory. The top pic as I recall the front plastic piece is not but the rest is. Here's
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what I did
 
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LukeZ

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I talked to the owner, its factory. Thanks guys!
 

airboatgreg

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I have to agree after looking at again and thinking about it. The 7mm screws are correct and it does look familiar
 

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First picture, not sure if that is a stock air intake or jerry rigged, although the aircleaner is a stock low performance LG4 one.

Second picture is the dual snorkel HO L69 aircleaner only found in some F bodies. Its popular for G bodies and was once sold by GMPP. Now its long discontinued and becoming rare, as are most bolt in performance parts for G bodies anymore. It is the highest flowing of the stock THERMAC aircleaners. You can build your own by getting a donor aircleaner to take a snorkel off of.

Third picture is the stock MCSS single snorkel HO L69 aircleaner. You can see both types of HO cleaners use wide mouth oval snorkels that flow more air. Caprices use this too. Both HO aircleaners with the intake tube are factory ramair. Again, the tubes are discontinued and good old ones are becoming rare as they rot from age.
 

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That first pic is a factory set up. Early cars had them on the SBC. Seen a few Malibus & Elkys with them.
 
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Yep, my '79 305 Malibu had the first setup on it.
 
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