Cowl Hood Scoop Grafted onto C4 Hood
12-27-2004, 11:27 PM
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Cowl Hood Scoop Grafted onto C4 Hood
I did a search and couldn't find anything on the forum regarding grafting a large cowl hood scoop onto a factory hood. I am looking for some examples, detailed photos of the process and any tips or tricks that I need to know. Does anyone have any details, brands, and photos of a completed project? I love Bob Curran's cowl hood and I would like to create something similar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
12-27-2004, 11:58 PM
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12-28-2004, 01:08 AM
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How much height do you need? I have a Greenwood hood scoop on my vette and it looks sweet, its a very high quality addition. I gained about 2 to 2.5" over stock and you can either cut the front nostrels out for the "ram air" effect or cut out the rear to suck in the air from the cowl. It looks like it came stock.
12-28-2004, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by RainJ
This guy lives an exit down from me:
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/commun...pid=226094&ck=
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/commun...pid=226094&ck=
Good Lord that thing is hideous
12-28-2004, 02:21 AM
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its different aint it! haha
Actually the pics don't do it justice.
Really muscled up the lines although I've not tried to drive behind it.. not sure on visibility
Actually the pics don't do it justice.
Really muscled up the lines although I've not tried to drive behind it.. not sure on visibility
12-28-2004, 05:40 AM
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I had a 4" Harwood "Outlaw" Cowl on my 84 Camaro race car, it was too tall so I swapped on a 2.5" Z28 cowl which worked fine and increased visability to the right front off the car.
The new C4 motor has a Vic Jr intake and I had to cut a hole in the hood for the air cleaner top fit.
I have to cover that so I'm taking the Outlaw 4" and cutting it down in Ht and length to fit on the C4 stock hood, and I'm building a fresh air box for the carb, from hrpworld.com.
THe outlaw hood has a verticle spine in the center which is opposite from the C4 centerline relief in the hood, so I'm sure it will look like crap when it's done, but I have it and it will work, so I'm using it.
There won't be detailed pics when I'm done, just the finished product.
It will be done in 2 or 3 weeks.
PM me if yoy want to follow up.
The new C4 motor has a Vic Jr intake and I had to cut a hole in the hood for the air cleaner top fit.
I have to cover that so I'm taking the Outlaw 4" and cutting it down in Ht and length to fit on the C4 stock hood, and I'm building a fresh air box for the carb, from hrpworld.com.
THe outlaw hood has a verticle spine in the center which is opposite from the C4 centerline relief in the hood, so I'm sure it will look like crap when it's done, but I have it and it will work, so I'm using it.
There won't be detailed pics when I'm done, just the finished product.
It will be done in 2 or 3 weeks.
PM me if yoy want to follow up.
12-28-2004, 10:02 AM
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Bob Curran
That is the exactly what I am looking for. Now I need to know whose scoop it is. I e-mailed Bob Curran a while ago and never heard from him.
01-09-2005, 04:36 AM
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What if you took the hood, and cut the middle section down, where its 20-22inches wide, cut two slots one on each side. Then peel it upward 2-3 inches to where you like, and then prob it up. After that put two cardboard pieces on each side of the gap, outside and inside the hood ( being under the section just cut). Fill it up with fiberglass resin and take the cardboard away. That looks kinda like what that blue prostreet car has done to it, but it doesnt look like a stock middle section.
BTW that grenwood kit doesnt do it for me, it looks like a bad attempt to look like a Transam WS6 copy ram air. I think cutting and raising it up and filling the space, or simply buying a cowl piece, and molding it with fiberglass resin would be better. But smoothing it out to look good is probably the most difficult part.
BTW that grenwood kit doesnt do it for me, it looks like a bad attempt to look like a Transam WS6 copy ram air. I think cutting and raising it up and filling the space, or simply buying a cowl piece, and molding it with fiberglass resin would be better. But smoothing it out to look good is probably the most difficult part.
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10-25-2010, 11:45 AM
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You should have started a new thread on this. Absolutely NO point in pulling up this ancient, unrelated thread (to ask the question). If anything, why didn't you post/link to an L88 scoop? Unbelievable!
We have seen one posted on this forum within the past year or two. IIRC, it was on a car that has DIY sidepipes and a carbed motor. Try searching for the keyword sidepipe(s) and see if you can find it.
I don't recall the user's name. Maybe someone else remembers? Did you try C4General?
We have seen one posted on this forum within the past year or two. IIRC, it was on a car that has DIY sidepipes and a carbed motor. Try searching for the keyword sidepipe(s) and see if you can find it.
I don't recall the user's name. Maybe someone else remembers? Did you try C4General?
10-25-2010, 04:05 PM
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saw one in my garage this morning:
since bonding anything PERMANENTLY to SMC is not possible (sleasy car dealers make temporary repairs that hold long enuf to fool unfortunate buyers) the scoop is set into a hole cut in the oem hood, scoop is level with hood surface, joint is left unfilled same as doors/etc but flush mount avoids 'stick-on' look...joint is located over hood inner structure so rain/wash water drains to oem front condensate weep holes.
since bonding anything PERMANENTLY to SMC is not possible (sleasy car dealers make temporary repairs that hold long enuf to fool unfortunate buyers) the scoop is set into a hole cut in the oem hood, scoop is level with hood surface, joint is left unfilled same as doors/etc but flush mount avoids 'stick-on' look...joint is located over hood inner structure so rain/wash water drains to oem front condensate weep holes.
10-25-2010, 04:16 PM
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