Need air cleaner advice - current one now too tall after carb and spacer change

[bs549]

  Need suggestions for air cleaner solution...

After installing an Edelbrock 600 carb with 1/2" wood spacer on my 74 Cuda which has a 440 and Weiand 8009 manifold, neither my old 3" air cleaner, nor the free Eddy 3" air cleaner (#1223, 14" diameter, 3 3/4 height) gives me enough clearance to close the hood.
Looks like I'm lacking a good inch or so of clearance Clarence ....

Any ideas of what size/kind of air cleaner I can use? I thought about using the free Eddy air cleaner cover and replacing the it's 3" filter with 2" filter , but not sure if the engine would be air starved or not with the smaller filter....

Any suggestions appreciated!!

[Chryco Psycho]

Not sure what base you are using but they do have drop base a/c that cover the carb more so that is the first thing I would look at , the second option is the K&N filter top which helps increase the area by allow air flow through the top cover . if the A/C fit before with the old carb & you just added the the new carb & spacer the carbs are the same height so you just have the spacer height difference .

[bs549]

yep, with the old a/c i was tight up against the hood, so i'm now 1/2 over due to the spacer....  (a sawsall would fix my problem but that's a bit drastic  hehe) 

Update! Found a Mr. Gasket 14x2 filter at O'Reillys and replaced the 14x3 Edelbrock one...gives enough clearance with about 3/4" to spare!