Well, I just got finished doing Mr. C's air filter mod and I am very pleased. It came out pretty much as I expected, based on all the info I was able to gather here on the thread, so, thanks to everyone.

I still have to remove/sand, paint the bracket and buy some hose to move my PCV venting, but otherwise, done.

I used a piece of 1/8" aluminum plate, the original mounting grommets, a couple of metric allen bolts with washers pushed through from the inside of the filter and nylon nuts on the bracket side. Pushing the allen bolts from the inside made tightening a lot easier since all I had to do was get an allen wrench in there for tightening.

I made one alteration that I thought came out nice. I copied the notch on the idle cable mounting bracket down below onto my filter mounting bracket just behind the filter under the tank. So, I can still get to it easily for adjustment, it's not in the way, it snaps loose just like it did before and everything is cleaned up down below.

I take some pics when I'm done with everything to post.

My only gripe is that K&N sent me a filter with their logo slapped on upside down in front. I'll end up finding something to put over it to personalize her anyway, but still, it looks goofy for now.

Has anyone looked into what chroming their bracket would cost? I know it wouldn't be cheap, but it would look good.