Hood Clearance

[OldZeuski]

I am about to start ordering parts and I have several friends who had to use cowl hoods to fit intake manifolds. Seeing as I just painted the car I was hoping to avoid replacing the hood. Does anyone know if a trick flow track heat intake manifold will fit under the hood, AND fit over heads with taller valve covers for roller rockers?

I'm keeping the stock rail with bigger injectors, but at some point I'm probably getting roller rockers on AFR 165 heads and I'm not sure if the track heat will require a spacer, and therefore run out of clearance with the stock hood, if it isn't already too tall.

Thanks in advance.

 

[GregT94SCC]

I managed to get my Kenne Bell to sit under a stock hood without any cutting or washers on the hood hinges. One trick is to change out your motor and trans mounts to get the drive line to sit a little lower. Back in the day folks used to say the convertibles ran mounts that dropped the engine. Can't substantiate that but I am running poly mounts all around and it helped.

 

[badass98svt]

I am about to start ordering parts and I have several friends who had to use cowl hoods to fit intake manifolds. Seeing as I just painted the car I was hoping to avoid replacing the hood. Does anyone know if a trick flow track heat intake manifold will fit under the hood, AND fit over heads with taller valve covers for roller rockers?

I'm keeping the stock rail with bigger injectors, but at some point I'm probably getting roller rockers on AFR 165 heads and I'm not sure if the track heat will require a spacer, and therefore run out of clearance with the stock hood, if it isn't already too tall.

Thanks in advance.

What manifolds are your friends buying that won't fit under the hood?
Tunnel Ram?

 

[OldZeuski]

What manifolds are your friends buying that won't fit under the hood?
Tunnel Ram?

Holley Systemax II and edelbrock RPM both claim they require a cowl even on the website.

One person I know needed a cowl with a gt40 intake but they ran tall valve covers for their rocker rollers and I’m not sure what spacer they went with to clear it. Another ran a trick flow (street or track I forget) and with a 1 inch spacer to clear trick flow valve covers, needed a cowl.

 

[RAU03MACH]

With a tubular gt 40 intake i use the original hood
I changed the hood to a cowl
Incase I go bigger engine
In the works

 

[95opal]

No straight answer to that, as many factors play apart.
Your first factor will be egr valve to valve cover clearance.To tall of covers and you will need a spacer to clear the valve cover to egr valve.
Easily solved if you delete egr, that's a totally different topic.
Not tall enough covers and you'll have rocker interference.
My advice is to measure what you need to clear the rockers and get a valve cover that will clear with minimal height clearance. Ditch the egr, dont run a spacer and pull the blanket from under the hood. This will give you the best chance at fitting most intakes without a cowl hood.

 

[OldZeuski]

No straight answer to that, as many factors play apart.
Your first factor will be egr valve to valve cover clearance.To tall of covers and you will need a spacer to clear the valve cover to egr valve.
Easily solved if you delete egr, that's a totally different topic.
Not tall enough covers and you'll have rocker interference.
My advice is to measure what you need to clear the rockers and get a valve cover that will clear with minimal height clearance. Ditch the egr, dont run a spacer and pull the blanket from under the hood. This will give you the best chance at fitting most intakes without a cowl hood.

I’ve got a holley terminator in the car so the EGR is already deleted. I think between that and the lowest profile valve covers im gonna be fine.

Thankyou.

 

[RAU03MACH]

when you say lowest valve covers i would get the 90-93 5.0 covers
those are low profile

 

[RossA81]

It may just fit without the hood liner. I ran a GT40 tube with a pretty big spacer to clear Ford Racing tall valve covers and it barely made it under the stock hood with liner removed. Definitely left a rub mark.

Ross