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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9911 Location: Lower Mainland BC | While I continue to look for a proper red 56 D500 oil bath air cleaner, I bought a 14" round chrome air cleaner. I've adapted it to work on the Carter WCFB with a 4 7/32" to 5 1/8" Mr. Gasket curved/tapered adapter and 5 1/8" x 5 1/8" Trans Adapt brand 1" spacer ring. To dress up the chrome air cleaner I was *thinking* (just thinking for now) of a sticker, like the one below, based on the 426 Hemi aircleaner sticker (also shown for comparison). I don't know what the proper font should be (I used Arial "Black" (in white) for the trial.) Edited by 56D500boy 2016-11-03 1:41 AM (HemiAirCleanerStickerD500_315Hemi_Trial.jpg) (HemiAirCleanerSticker.png) Attachments ---------------- HemiAirCleanerStickerD500_315Hemi_Trial.jpg (51KB - 100 downloads) HemiAirCleanerSticker.png (74KB - 101 downloads) | ||
56D500boy |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9911 Location: Lower Mainland BC | Fell asleep thinking about this modification. Still a mock-up/trial (HemiAirCleanerStickerD500_315Hemi_Trial2WithFlags.jpg) Attachments ---------------- HemiAirCleanerStickerD500_315Hemi_Trial2WithFlags.jpg (111KB - 97 downloads) | ||
56D500boy |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9911 Location: Lower Mainland BC | Well, even if when/I get a proper D500 air cleaner or I am able to modify the Chrysler air cleaner that I bought from Marty, I'm not sure if I wouldn't still think very hard about this option (with the sticker colour laser-printed on top an 8.5" x 11" sticky label sheet. The radius could use a tiny tweak and the "Hemi Head" Font need to be crisper (I started with a jpg off the internet). (That's a chrome pie plate, not black) Edited by 56D500boy 2016-11-15 4:47 PM (AirCleanerMockupOnD500315HemiWithCarterWCFB.jpg) Attachments ---------------- AirCleanerMockupOnD500315HemiWithCarterWCFB.jpg (235KB - 100 downloads) | ||
56D500boy |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9911 Location: Lower Mainland BC | 56D500boy - 2016-11-15 4:45 PM Well, even if when/I get a proper D500 air cleaner or I am able to modify the Chrysler air cleaner that I bought from Marty, I'm not sure if I wouldn't still think very hard about this option (with the sticker colour laser-printed on top an 8.5" x 11" sticky label sheet. The radius could use a tiny tweak and the "Hemi Head" Font need to be crisper (I started with a jpg off the internet). In the end, I just had what I had created in PAINT (the program, not the liquid) printed on a big vinyl (8.5 x 11) sticker sheet on a colour laser printer. Looks pretty good to me. (I am still working on an OE air cleaner (with 2 stacked FRAM paper filters) | ||
mstrug |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 6502 Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | Nice progress! Did 'paint' let you cut and paste the numbers? | ||
56D500boy |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9911 Location: Lower Mainland BC | mstrug - 2017-12-16 12:18 PM Nice progress! Did 'paint' let you cut and paste the numbers? Each number was placed individually in Paint. I used a white font (can't remember the size or type face)) and adjusted the base (six times) in Irfanview (which has a custom rotation option (to +/- 0.1 degrees if I remember correctly) so the number I was working on was square to the rotated base. It was very cumbersome but it worked. To create a "325 hemi" sticker, I could start with the final "315 hemi" and do two separate rotations to black out the "1" and replace it with a white "2". I am sure that it would be easier in Photoshop (but I don't have that). Here are two example steps, starting with the base and then the placement of the first "1" and then the first "5" Edited by 56D500boy 2017-12-16 1:30 PM (HemiAirCleanerSticker_base.jpg) (HemiAirCleanerSticker_1.jpg) (HemiAirCleanerSticker_3.jpg) Attachments ---------------- HemiAirCleanerSticker_base.jpg (18KB - 94 downloads) HemiAirCleanerSticker_1.jpg (95KB - 110 downloads) HemiAirCleanerSticker_3.jpg (98KB - 91 downloads) | ||
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