Art, if you're looking for bling and pain in the butt to work on, read no further, this is not the set up for you, but if you like the best flowing performance available, ease to work on and not expensive, then read on.
Art, I came up with something on my street MGB, that now has been copied by hundreds of MGB owners, we had did this set up for years on the race cars. It's the best flowing air filter set up you can get, it's extremely simple and easy to remove (how's a few seconds sound to remove the air filter and have full access to the carbs sound?), and here's the kicker for the price of two KN Air filters this set up can be yours, the KN air filters (about 30 bucks each) which you can get from many vendors, Summit Racing is good source.
Here's the deal you use your two stock aluminum factory velocity stacks that are normally hidden in side the stock "tea pot" air filter cans, and bolt the factory velocity stack directly to the carb body, I counter bored my two mounting holes to give it flush mount, but you can use hex bolts or button head allen bolts with no mods to the stock velocity stack (not use no gasket between the carb and v-stack), Then buy 2 K&N RU-4410 air filters, which has a rubber mounting sleeve that is exactly 3.5" ID (the same as the OD on the stock velocity stack) so the air filters just slip over the OD of the v-stack and is held on with the supplied (with the KN filter) clamp. It doesn't getting any easier and better performing than this.
Here's why I did this Art, when I got my car it that this blingy front plate back plate set up on the with threaded rod running thru the air flow of the air filter, like almost every stock and aftermarket set up offered for our cars, which are a absolute PITA to remove and work on the carbs. Sure some of these set up are very blingy, but I wanted perforamcne and ease to work on, not bling, most people like the looks of it because it looks racey, but for me it was always about performance and easy to work on.
Here's a a couple of pictures, one is of the filters installed, the other is of the factory v-stack showing how I counterbored the stack to get a flush mount on the carb.
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