Hood help?
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Racer
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Hood help?
Hallo, its been a long time and while I've been rebuilding the engine on my 1973 BB I came to a complete stop/dilemma!..:
After putting a bigger/taller intake I can't close the Hood! I tried everything and the clearance between the carb and hood with No filter is only 1/2 inch!!
I dont like to cut a hole on the hood!.so
- should I have the body shop rise the original BB hood
or should I get one of those High Rise Twin Turbo Hood form Corvette America...I like them but do the have more clearance than my BB one??
here's the link:
http://www.corvetteamerica.com/cf/di...word%3A%20hood
Cheers
After putting a bigger/taller intake I can't close the Hood! I tried everything and the clearance between the carb and hood with No filter is only 1/2 inch!!
I dont like to cut a hole on the hood!.so
- should I have the body shop rise the original BB hood
or should I get one of those High Rise Twin Turbo Hood form Corvette America...I like them but do the have more clearance than my BB one??
here's the link:
http://www.corvetteamerica.com/cf/di...word%3A%20hood
Cheers
Melting Slicks
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From: Great Plains Iowa
Hallo, its been a long time and while I've been rebuilding the engine on my 1973 BB I came to a complete stop/dilemma!..:
After putting a bigger/taller intake I can't close the Hood! I tried everything and the clearance between the carb and hood with No filter is only 1/2 inch!!
I dont like to cut a hole on the hood!.so
- should I have the body shop rise the original BB hood
or should I get one of those High Rise Twin Turbo Hood form Corvette America...I like them but do the have more clearance than my BB one??
here's the link:
http://www.corvetteamerica.com/cf/di...word%3A%20hood
Cheers
After putting a bigger/taller intake I can't close the Hood! I tried everything and the clearance between the carb and hood with No filter is only 1/2 inch!!
I dont like to cut a hole on the hood!.so
- should I have the body shop rise the original BB hood
or should I get one of those High Rise Twin Turbo Hood form Corvette America...I like them but do the have more clearance than my BB one??
here's the link:
http://www.corvetteamerica.com/cf/di...word%3A%20hood
Cheers
You'll need an L-88 style hood and even then you may have to make modifications to it.
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Racer
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Should I just have body shop rise my hood scoop then?..don't even
know how expensive its going to be
Last edited by Cattiva73; Dec 13, 2015 at 04:52 PM.
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Melting Slicks
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You'd be a lot better off buying an L-88 style hood and then have a body shop make any additional modifications to it. I am running a heavily modified drop base air cleaner with a 3" tall element and even then I had to remove 1/4" from the top of my Air Gap intake manifold to end up with a whopping 1/8" clearance.
Melting Slicks
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I assumed it would fit under my aftermarket L-88 hood but quickly found I needed to cut my air cleaner base down about 5/8", heavily dimple it to clear the Holley float adjustment screws, AND cut 1/4" off the top of my intake manifold. I just did what I needed to do to make everything work.
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Racer
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Part #: 25-314580-1
http://www.ecklerscorvette.com/hood-...-and-high.html
Last edited by Cattiva73; Dec 13, 2015 at 06:54 PM.
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Racer
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the rise from my BB hood its only 2"..any upgraded intake would have give me trouble!..I thought I could resolve with a drop base filter...but NO such luck
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Drifting
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have a look at this and maybe ask post 4 what he has
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ine-build.html
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ine-build.html
Last edited by Kacyc3; Dec 14, 2015 at 04:37 PM.
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