Factory Air cleaner on S&S carb

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Factory Air cleaner on S&S carb

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I've got a Super E on my bike and want to make it look a bit more vintage by running a factory air filter cover. Anyone done this before ? I'm willing to cut the S&S back plate and make a plate to mount to the S&S mounts and offer a center stud for the HD cover. I need to keep the S&S backplate so I can retain the enrichment valve lever.
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yep, completely doable. MBskeam posted these pix awhile back & I copied it for my '61 Pan with S&S Super E carb. I made the outer bracket out of stainless & used the existing "stand-offs" from the original backing plate. Had to move the rear one a bit & weld it to the backing plate to accommodate the round air filter cover. In the pix shown the enrichener lever has been extended, however I did not do that on mine as I didn't feel it was necessary.
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Last picture is with round air filter cover in place on my motorcycle. You can see the stock enrichener lever in the pic...looks ok to me as is.
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Super E here also. Inside cables as well. Just make a simple round plate that screws to the carb, with a bracket to screw the cover to. Also just REMOVE the lift-up enrichner and simply screw the Lift and Turn Enrichner from an old Super B in its place!
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Thanks guys. Make a big difference in the style of the bike :)
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indianut wrote:Image\
Super E here also. Inside cables as well. Just make a simple round plate that screws to the carb, with a bracket to screw the cover to. Also just REMOVE the lift-up enrichner and simply screw the Lift and Turn Enrichner from an old Super B in its place!
Indianut, do you have anymore pics of the footpegs behind the floorboards? I'm really diggin that idea...
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I think they are just Stock Panhead Buddy Pegs!
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use the enricher like danny said but if you dont want to fab something up vtwin has an inexpensive adapter just for that application.
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the one on the left is from s&s, middle one is vtwin, and right is from mooneyes. you can adapt about any carb and cleaner cover with these. well, almost.
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Post by Hog54 »

The stock harley one that fits on a keihen carb fits on a super E.And it looks exactly like the oem panhead filter except it dont have the tag on top.


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