Thankyou Warren Malkin, Mark Malkin and Chris White. JL8 Z28

[Steve Shauger]

Originally Posted by jeffschevelle

Awesome car, and a moving story. And great owners (past and present)! Congrats, Charley.

That induction setup is fascinating, with the crossram hood being converted to 1x4. For the uninformed like myself, what was the reason for that being offered? Was that the over-the-counter workaround before the production steel cowl hood became available?

If so, was it available from the get-go when the cross ram hood came out, or was that someone's creativity later to figure out, "Hey, we can fab up some parts to make this hood work on a single carb."

And was that snorkel-less air cleaner specific to this set up, or was it available later with the regular steel cowl hood?

Can't image there are many more of those set ups known to survive. This is certainly the first one I have ever seen.

Congrats again!

There are a lot of configuration, but to make it simple a flat hood Z28 would have open element air cleaner. What is unique is the car is equipped with a fiberglass hood designed for a crossram air cleaner assembly, however a very rare adapter plate was installed that accommodate a special single 4 barrel open element air cleaner. So in effect you still get cold air induction.

The crossram manifold could be configured for a standard flat hood or other hoods as well by changing the air cleaner assembly.