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building a 4" cowl hood for my Supercharged 5.0L Tbird

Reply #15 –
Hey RJ, nice work on the hood :)  I wont stray from the topic here :flip:

building a 4" cowl hood for my Supercharged 5.0L Tbird

Reply #16 –
Quote from: 88turbo;406266
Hey RJ, nice work on the hood :)  I wont stray from the topic here :flip:

Same here.  ^^  I thought about going steel(Wish I had) but there was concern about the warpage of the metal in welding a cowl on. Had I known that nobody knows how to make a decent fiberglass hood, I would have done it anyway.
1983 Tbird with '03 Split Port V6 motor swap done! Headers, dual exhaust, 500CFM Edelbrock, 3G upgrade, Electric fan. 3.73 Gears and an FRPP Limited Slip. Five lug complete! 5-Speed conversion complete! Standalone Fuel Injection in progress...

building a 4" cowl hood for my Supercharged 5.0L Tbird

Reply #17 –
Looks great Ron,  what's the plans on the 302? We need pics brother!

building a 4" cowl hood for my Supercharged 5.0L Tbird

Reply #18 –
I've said it before, I'm not a cowl hood guy, but I like yours. It looks great. Did you, or are you going to cut out the bottom of the hood?

As for  talk from ANYBODY at all....why don't you take it to PM and keep private. The public doesn't need it.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

building a 4" cowl hood for my Supercharged 5.0L Tbird

Reply #19 –
I love the way it looks


And yea what's the under side like ?

building a 4" cowl hood for my Supercharged 5.0L Tbird

Reply #20 –
will get some pics od the under side tomorrow.  yes it is functional as the hood skin was removed from underneath. warpage is only a factor if you dont know how to weld.  and I have been welding for over 10 years now :)

the bird is sporting a complete stang driveline including T5 and a brand new Vortech supercharger.  will be installing a brand new trickflow top end kit (new 170cc heads, new track max cam, and new street burner intake and new 1.6 Trickflow Roller rockers as well) that I have waiting to go, for warmer weather.  plus I will be running it with megasquirt and have a buddy building my computer inside a stock computer so it will be plug and tune.  will also be running 9-10psi when it is done.  Goal is to make a 500rwhp dyno pull, then de tune it to about 450ish for the street.  want to hit 11's at the track this summer as well.


the MAS was sold as I am going stand alone speed density, and the injectors will be for sale as they are 24lbs and I will need much more now that I went forced induction.

this pics was during the install:

quick idle vid:

had draglites on it but sold them as I will not be running a drag only ride so they didnt suit the look I was going for.  will be doing the 5 lug conversion and running bullits on the street then another new set of draglites for track days.

quick burnout vid before the blower install
http://youtu.be/11z7WeMxDSk

building a 4" cowl hood for my Supercharged 5.0L Tbird

Reply #21 –
Nice
 

building a 4" cowl hood for my Supercharged 5.0L Tbird

Reply #22 –
here's the underside.  been thinking of cuting out the support that runs to the back of the hood and welding the cowl support to the end of that piece then making a sheet metal box for a K&N panel filter and route it to the blower to make it fully functional