Good morning;

Wondering what is the orginal air cleaner on a 67 442? Does it make a difference as to 4 speed or automatic?

Was there some 'late production change' that changed but I can't find any info on it.

Thanks for any info.

 

67 442 4 speed has an open element air cleaner.

 

Automatics used an air cleaner with a snout on early models. Late automatic cars had a round enclosed air cleaner with a smaller pie pan base. Don't know when in production run change was made.

 

I have a 1967 442 4 speed convertible The air cleaner is open faced There is a pie plate on the bottom & the top lid is chrome with a removable decal. I don,t have the car home @ this moment but i,m sure the decal says oldsmobile @ the top ultra high compression under the oldsmobile word & @ the bottom it says 442 & on the r side use premium fuel. friskyjake

 

My 67 442 came with this style air cleaner

 

in addition to the CCC air cleaner ..... the '67 442 used the following other air cleaners:
L to R - early automatic, manual transmission (3 & 4 speed), W30 (auto & 4-speed), late automatic

 

Nice pics to illustrate. Getting down to exact details, there are actually 2 versions of all of those except the open element type.
K20 California crankcase ventilation versions had an additional hose connection in the bases. Manual transmission K20 442s with K50 got a CCC air cleaner (K20 version) and the K20 442s got the snorkel(early)/no snorkel(late) "automatic" air cleaners with the K20 bases.
So no California cars got the open element air cleaners. Total number of 442 air cleaners for '67: 9.