Air Cleaners

My new boring bar set showed up yesterday so I bored the holes in the bottom of the air cleaners and got them installed last night.  I still need to cut some sort of design into the tops and polish them.  I cut a VW logo in one of the tops before thinning them down but I didn't really like it.  I may just cut some straight lines in them...  Any other ideas?

More Air Cleaners

Last night I finished cutting the spacers that go between the top and bottom of the air cleaners, I carbon finished them, I cut the head of the screws down to just under 1/2" and cut the counter-syncs into the top and bottoms of the air cleaners.  All that is left is to bore the 4 holes for the carb throats and polish the aluminum parts.

Air Cleaners

The DRLA carbs have the fuel inlet sitting slightly above the top of the carb.  With cross bar linkages this is not a big deal because there is a plate that mounts between the carb top and the bottom of the air cleaner base.  This creates just enough space so the air cleaner base clears the fuel inlet.  I could have made a spacer but I decided to make a whole new set of air cleaners.

The tops will have another .250" taken off the thickness leaving them at around .500".  The bottom will also have .250" taken off, but only around the edge so the spacer is built into the air cleaner.  They will eventually have a red anodized VW logo carved into the top but the rest will be polished.  This is all being done on a manual mill with no CNC.  Even the VW logo.