Edelbrock Pro-Flow 1000

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Pro-Flo® 1000 Series Reusable Air Cleaners

# Fits most popular domestic carburetors
# Strong metal inner frame
# Minimum flow restriction and good filtering ability
# Cleans with soap and water; low maintenance cost
# Simple to install
# Nicely finished, low profile… only 3" tall
Pro-Flo® 1000 Series, with the popular reusable air filter, offers superior flow capacity, low profile, good filtration, performance benefits and long-term savings. Pro-Flo 1000 is an economical and effective way to keep clean air feeding your engine without the expense of a new filter every few thousand miles. Inside every Edelbrock Pro-Flo 1000 Series, you’ll find our exclusive urethane foam element.

Maintaining Pro-Flo’s foam element is simple. Just release the spring clip, remove the element, wash in hot, soapy water. Rinse, dry and reassemble. Should you need to replace your foam element, replacement element (#1099) is available. For superior flow capacity, performance and economy, choose Pro-Flo 1000 Series reusable air filters.
Works as advertised. Very good. Two thumbs up. :thumbup :thumbup
Initial discussion regarding this unit was here:
http://fullsizebronco.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25358
I'll post photos shortly.

http://www.madogre.com/Automotive/ProFlo1000.JPG
It's not a bad looking unit by its self, but it does look out of place here on this application. But the perfomance gains are worthy and with the hood shut, no one can see the bling bling.
:brownbag

i think it looks pretty cool.

only downside is muddy water goes right through those things

If you dont mud... then there shouldnt be a problem

You don't get a lot of mud out here in the Uintah Basin.

I'm not going to say any bullshit like I got 25 more horses or anything like that... because I don't know. Like I said before, I liked the unit for it's small size, access to the carb body without removing the old large unit that was broken and had the intake neck flopping aroung banging into crap. So anything e;s enot withstanding - I'm calling it a good change right there.
But after driving it... it gets better.
The difference is not just noticable, but obvious and almost drastic. It feels like I have a lot more low end, a lot more torque. This unit flows a hellofalotof more air than the old unit and paper filter did. Either that or the old unit wasn't flowing hardly anything. My Bronco feels downright SPRY.
I was able to dance up steep portion of the trail that is normally... how should I put it? Laborous.
I'm not frosting this... I'm not BSing... because I actually like to break the news to people that some hyped up product engineered by the marketing department is actually crap. I wasn't expecting any performance gains out of this unit. But I got them. Good grief - do I got them.
My old unit's air filter was 4 months old... and it still looks pretty clean. Fram. Evidently Fram paper air filters do not pass enough air.
I don't know if this is a testament to the new air cleaner, or an indictment of the old one using a Fram standard air filter. Take it for what it is.
The thing looks out of place under the hood. Kinda goofy if you ask me. But it works.
I'm just tickled.

I'm not trying to be critical I'm just amazed. It looks like you got that cool air cleaner on a Motorcraft 2300 2bbl carb. If the stock air cleaner couldn't provide enough flow for that carb it was pathetic. Got any "before" pictures?

You are right, it's the motorcraft 2bbl.
But I don't have any before pics. I didn't get it because it was "cool", I got it for the size... so I can get at the carb and things without having to take off the cleaner and because the price was less than the generic 14 inch chrome pie plates. So I figured, why not. I wasn't expecting any performance gains.
Like I said, I don't know if this is a testament to the new air cleaner, or an indictment of the old one using a Fram standard air filter.
:shrug

EDIT:
Just a few minutes ago I was examining the old air cleaner. There is a valve inside the tube and the damn thing is pretty much stuck in an almost closed off position... The hole where the heat tube coming in from the manifold was covered with a jar lid. I never examined the bottom of the aircleaner before to notice that. But with that vlave plate shut, I wasn't getting very air. No wonder I felt such a performance increase. HELLO!
:duh

good to know you got a more practical air cleaner and fixed a problem

Thats why I stepped up from a Ranger to a Bronco, I was fixing problems, putting on new stuff that was the same but not broke... Broncos you can modify cheaper. Simplicity rocks :thumbup

Oh and you can just rip that A/C pump off and cut the hoses you know... you dont have to have that crap in the way :thumbup

EDIT:
Just a few minutes ago I was examining the old air cleaner. There is a valve inside the tube and the damn thing is pretty much stuck in an almost closed off position... The hole where the heat tube coming in from the manifold was covered with a jar lid. I never examined the bottom of the aircleaner before to notice that. But with that vlave plate shut, I wasn't getting very air. No wonder I felt such a performance increase. HELLO!
:duh

Thanks for the update. It makes a lot more sense now.

Oh and you can just rip that A/C pump off and cut the hoses you know... you dont have to have that crap in the way

If you looked at that picture closely, he's got the A/C compressor plumbed for onboard air. I'm guessing he uses it.

If you looked at that picture closely, he's got the A/C compressor plumbed for onboard air. I'm guessing he uses it.

If you look closely there is no belt to the ac so i am guessin he doesnt use it :goodfinge

I hope he doesnt have that POS plumbed for OBA anyways, thats not even a York. He would have an air filter on the intake hose... I dont see one

And the belt thing was a dead giveaway

just fyi Ive seen a few of these air filters go up in flames during a backfire so be prepared

just fyi Ive seen a few of these air filters go up in flames during a backfire so be prepared
I wasn't gonna mention that, but you're right. I had one about 15 years ago and it f'd up a real nice paint job on a Charger. :cry

OBA = That's why I've not taken it off. I'll make that happen in the spring.
Backfires: Hurt this rig. If that filter catches fire, it wont hurt much before I can put the fire out, clean out the carb, and then I can just put in another piece of foam and I'm rolling again. Not Worried. Besides, this is temp. I just wanted to play with this for a bit. I'm going to use a big diesel airfilter eventually. I've got a lot of room to use in there.

Looks good MO, Bronco's always like to breath a little better.

just fyi Ive seen a few of these air filters go up in flames during a backfire so be prepared

I wasn't gonna mention that, but you're right. I had one about 15 years ago and it f'd up a real nice paint job on a Charger. :cry
:stupid
Remember I posted this in your original thread.
I use to have one of those on my 79 Mustang Cobra, It ruined my carb. At some point the carb hickuped and blew a little falme out. The element cought on fire and it all fell down in my carb. Coated it with melted crispy stuff.

I found out later that lots of people had that problem with that style filter.

Ever since then I have not trusted thoes things.
And like somone else said, mud, water, snow slush and anything else suspended in a liquid that you drive thrue could splash right down that thing.

Be carefull, dont want you to hurt your rig.