• Hi Guest!
    If you appreciate British Car Forum and our 25 years of supporting British car enthusiasts with technical and anicdotal information, collected from our thousands of great members, please support us with a low-cost subscription. You can become a supporting member for less than the dues of most car clubs.
    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

Spitfire Spitfire air filter element

Share this page

D

Dono

Senior Member
Offline
Big Sky Hi!
Restoring a 1971 MkIV Spitfire w/ a 1969 MkIII engine. The air filter canister is unusual, round with a tube coming off. [Photo attached if it loads ok] Anyone seen one like it?
My old filter is: OD: 160mm ID: 145mm Ht: 60mm

Anyone have a source & part # for a replacement? Having no luck. Thanks, Don Missoula, MT
 

Attachments

  • 16353.jpg
    16353.jpg
    21.6 KB · Views: 198
Andy's right its a standard single ZS airfilter housing.The photo shows the inner housing that bolts to the carb your missing the outer cover.To my knowledge "TEAMTRIUMPH.COM'is an excellent source.You may have a problem sourcing the shoulder bolts for it also,And the paper gasket,which is a special gasket that has the proper holes punched.Talk to Scott @ TT.
Good Luck
Ken
 
Andy, Ken,
Thank you. I have the cover, shoulder bolts. It is stamped "A/C", so I'll contact TT. Really appreciate it!

Don Missoula, MT
 
A/C DELCO;..founded as "Dayton Engineering Laboratory Co."
"Wikipedia"
By; Charles Kettering(former GM CEO)&
Edward A. Deeds
Also mfg A/C fuel pumps & other stuff
 
Kettering founded Delco; the AC in AC-Delco comes from Albert Champion who founded both the Champion Ignition company, and the AC Spark Plug division of Buick. AC-Delco didn't come about until both were part of General Motors, somewhat later.

However, I believe AC fuel pumps and filters (like those found on Triumphs) were made by a separate company, in England. Not sure of their history, possibly related to the Autocarriers Limited that eventually became AC cars (and the AC Cobra). The UK in the 50s was way too protectionist to allow Standard-Triumph to buy components from overseas.
 
I don't think they're totally separate companies; rather, I suspect that the English AC were part of the Vauxhall/GM England companies. Packaging for British and American AC products tended to be somewhat similar, as were the logos and such. The AC logo for Autocarriers was always more stylized and almost script-like.

As for the protectionism, it wasn't that hard and fast. After all, Standard-Triumph came somewhat close to building the Nash (aka Hudson and Austin) Metropolitan, but then it went to BMC!
 
Andrew is right. Ford and GM had been present in the UK for years, and I think they were always American-owned! :yesnod:

Same as Champion Spark plugs, Fram filters, and a bunch of others - they had their own factories in UK and supplied pretty much all manufacturers. No need to import!
 
Back
Top