custom hoods or scoops?
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From: Johnson City TN
custom hoods or scoops?
Anyone know of a custom hood for a 73 to 79 truck? How about a scoop or cowl that can be bolted on? I hate 2 sided tape. What I really want is about 2" tall cowl that's about 24" long and at least that wide up to about 36".
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From: las vegas
i think harwood has some hood scoops and cowl pieces that you can put on your hood, dont know if they are weldable or if you have to use 2-sided tape, try looking on the jegs or summit websites, they will have more info. or of you are able to weld and fabricate, get some sheet metal and make your own
Laughing Gas
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From: Georgetown, Ky
The Gt500 hood is ehhh.... well i guess it varies by individual, dont care for it myself.. They do have a nice 9" cowl induction glass hood.. thinkin about orderin a smaller, 3 or 4 incher for my 75..
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From: Spokane, WA
I have a 5" cowl induction scoop and I like it. They are also available in 2" but I didn't care for the looks of them as you can barely see them. I will say 5-6" is as high as I'd want to go as it blocks a bit of my view already. I got an old hood from the bone yard ($30) and riveted the scoop on, and then fiberglassed it all in. It's perfectly smooth now, looks like a factory job. I have a hole cut in it and my air cleaner rises up through.
Scoop on the truck:
Here's the view from in the cab:
Scoop on the truck:
Here's the view from in the cab:
Laughing Gas
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From: Kincardine, ON
Ivanribic, when you cut out the hood for the scoop how did you finish the underhood ribbing? Any pic's. Thanks.
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I'll see if I can snap some pics tonight or tomorrow. My cut past through the ribbing to the rear of the hood. I was afraid it would weaken the hood but it didn't at all. However I didn't fill in the ribbing gaps or any of that. I'll post a pic as soon as I snap it.
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Alright, took me long enough but here's a picture from the underside of the hood. It's dirty but you get the idea. The center rib gets cut and some of the rear support ribbing is cut too. It would be nice to have a slightly smaller diameter air cleaner so you didn't have to chop so much but the smaller ones I found were about half that size and so were too restrictive for my engine. I don't have it on there now but I'm using a velocity stack base with a full size air cleaner on top to rise up into the scoop. It's a cool setup.
I got the scoop off ebay from a seller named mr.goodglass who's been around forever. I like his scoops because they have the center ridge which looks exactly like the ridge on the original hoods. Quality is excellent, no sagging or anything. Check out auction 7991599891, That's the same scoop I'm using. He also does them in a longer scoop but it won't fit our hoods.
I got the scoop off ebay from a seller named mr.goodglass who's been around forever. I like his scoops because they have the center ridge which looks exactly like the ridge on the original hoods. Quality is excellent, no sagging or anything. Check out auction 7991599891, That's the same scoop I'm using. He also does them in a longer scoop but it won't fit our hoods.
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that just looks sweet i found a site that has cowl induction hoods for our trucks www.up22.com
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From: Bethlehem, PA
thats pretty nice ivanribic...i heard from someone who tried using rivets on an induction that after a while they snapped through the scoop and just cracked all the paint and what not around the scoop...how long have you had yours done? have you ever heard of the rivets snapping through like that?
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The only possible way I could see rivets doing that is if they're in upside down or if the fiberglass used to make the scoop wasn't mixed right and it became brittle. Although I just put the hood on the truck that scoop has been glassed in there for almost a year now and I know Pro has a similar scoop riveted to his hood which has been on for a couple years with no problems. FWIW we bought my buddy a hood from UP22 for his GMC. It's an all fiberglass hood with 2 or 3" scoop. It looks cool but he had to do a lot of work on it and make a lot of mods to get it to fit right. Someone else in this forum bought some parts for their 73-79 truck and had a TON of problems with them. Just based in what I've seen I wouldn't recommend them but that's just me.
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