Okay, normally I'm pretty tolerant of other peoples ideas and tastes in what works well for mods... but, this guy gets my vote for "Most Hideous Looking Hood bolted onto a Thunderbird" award, hands down.
I give him credit for stuffing a 5.4 under the low hood line of an MN12 but that hood has GOT to go, I dont care if it means the supercharger gets evicted from the engine bay.
Enjoy :rollin:
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Because you're dyin to know why someone would put that ugly of a hood on...here's the reason for that strange, grotesque looking lump in the hood :mullet:
(http://i40.tinypic.com/imtn2b.jpg)
Only needs 3 things! hood! different supercharger! new back tires!
I agree. I would've installed a Whipple which is lower in height and made a better hood to cover it or don a factory hood with it protruding through. I've seen a couple of Crown Vics with this setup.
I would've just went with a cowl hood.
It looks like it has a tumor. :yuck:
or a nasty NA 5.4 DOHC.
It does make a person looking wonder what it is.Kinda cool and different.I really get sick of seeing cowl hoods on everything.Would I use that hood,no.But for what it is,I give 'em credit for using their imagination and the work involved.I can't be one of the negative votes for it.
I think I would have relocated the overflow tank and mounted the blower lower in the engine bay. That "knot" in the hood looks like it was shut down on something...
The hood looks quite odd, I like the idea of a SC'd 5.4 MN12 Bird but the hood just kills it for me.
Agreed. You would think after swapping a SC'd 5.4 in there, moving the overflow tank would be no big deal. Especially compared to making a hood like that... :hick:
Wonder what it does to the aerodyamics:hick:
wonder what it would do with bad motor mounts and some power.
good luck on that... NOBODY has been able to fit a DOHC 5.4 into an MN12 yet. you have to cut the shock towers just to get it in.. hell a SOHC 5.4 BARELY fits between them...
and yeah that is Butt f**k UUUUGGGGGLLLLYYYY!!!! i dont care if it runs 10's, it is still hideous!
i can tell the hood is a bit odd, but are there any more pictures of this car with the hood installed? as far as cutting a hole in the hood for that SC set up.. i think i recall a civic done up that way? it may have been a turbo...
Function Over Form. Enough said.
I can see it from that point of view, but jesus christ on a crotch rocket!
For the work that's been done...to make a 'glass hood like that, why not a bit of a cowl, or a scoop, or a raised section, or whatnot?
Wouldn't have been any more work than what he's done already, correct?
To each their own though. Rest of the car is nice I think.
see thats why i want to see better pictures of this car.. if you look, the "knot" is on the left side of a cowl hood. i also believe it's got 2 cowl hoods infact a raised section in the cowl to clear the TB etc. he obviously had more than 1 thing to build a glass hood for...
[SIZE="1"]why not run without a hood instead of getting so complicatedly ugly. too much.[/SIZE]
I would have left a hole in the hood or no hood going by that. Thats just me.
There was a post of some 4 eyes with hoods that formed around all the piping. I liked it. Looked deformed and demented.
i thought the OP said its a 5.4,, im not really familiar with them enough to tell. sure looks like a 4.6
I agree with you though, really fugly. lots of realestate if the coolant fill or washer fluid tank was relocated.
yeah it looks like a 4.6L, but it is a 5.4L... but I also said the DOHC 5.4 wont fit, not a SOHC... the SOHC fits fine, VERY tight, but it fits. But it useless, unless you are using your bird to pull stumps out of the ground....
the 4.6L would actually be faster then a 5.4 in a bird.... do a search on it on TCCOA...
For all that work why not throw in a sc DOHC 4.6?
Ok, time for me to chime in. 5.4 DOHC... SOHC... 4.6? Who knows! Alot of work went into shoehorning whatever it is into the engine bay. As for the hood, well it's definately not anything I would want. However, I'm sure it took several hours to lay the glass and get the contour just right.
Ok, you guys asked for the punishment... so heres another couple pics. The engine is a 5.4 Triton SOHC, but given the ugliness of that hood, who cares?!?
(http://i41.tinypic.com/xl9j4k.jpg)
(http://i40.tinypic.com/2qsnp6v.jpg)
Why the hell did he use a truck blower set up, and not a Vortech for a 4.6L? man that car is UGLY!!!
are there any more pics? i still want to make sure 110% he's got a cowl on a cowl on that knot. you'd think after glassing that hood pictures would be on google.