Help with air cleaner fit under hood

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Originally Posted by TNTaylor

Bill -

Thanks for the info. As noted earlier, I got the R2C bottom plate with 14" x 3" filter.

As for your formulas, here is what I get:

468 x 5500/20839 = 123.5

3" x 14" x 6 x 3,14 = 791

I don't understand what the numbers are telling me, can you help?
Tim

The consumption of the engine is 468 x 5500 / 3456= 745 cfm.

So you do need 3 inch of height.