Okay, so a stock style Pontiac dual snorkel base and a standard 14" diameter lid (not a filter lid)
I've seen setups similar to this at the track that worked well. I had a theory that keeping the stock base like you have sort of insulates the carb from ingesting a ton of heat, especially any heat soak coming up from the bottom.
Rather than a simple open element that isn't shielded.
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