Making the GT hood scoop functional:

1.) Remove the hood scoop insert and then cut the hood from underneath to open it up.

2.) Affix some nonrestrictive grill on there to keep leaves out.

3.) Caulk the inside edges of the scoop to make it air tight.

4.) Attach piping coming from the opening from the scoop all the way along your hood to behind the passenger side headlight.

5.) Remove the silencer from your air box and seal off the open side.

6.) Drill the small water drain into the bottom of the airbox.

7.) Cut a hole into the top of the air box and put some kind of rubber piece that will create a flush seal with the end of the piping along your hood.

8.) Place lots of thermal guard all over that piping as the area above the engine gets hot.

It's not impossible but I have yet to see anyone do it in such a way that it looks good. If you were going that custom, I would recommend putting in some kind of heat vents into your hood to let the hot engine air escape (cobra style). I would also be careful of some aerodynamic issues (lift) on your hood from such a large inlet. You may want hood pins as well as reinforced hardware keeping the GT hoodscoop attached. If the above was done carefully, it would definitely yield bragging rights.

It would only cost a couple of trips to home depot (or some time in an auto salvage yard as you may beable to find some parts of other cars air ducts that could be used), the use of some decent tools, a bit of creativity, and some time.

I'd like to hear if anyone actually gets a set up like this together and more importantly if it works.

FS

 

Sounds like a lot of work for something that isnt going to improve performance in the end. It might keep the engine a little cooler but nothing that will boost any power.

 

just a complicated cai that will look ghetto'd up

 

Sounds good, always does in theory though. Prolly a lot of work to get it to actually work with the cai, Would look nicer, and would be more practical to just use it as a engine compartment cooler and just have the vents dump behind the motor, similar to a srt-4 setup (althought it's used to cool their hairdryer of a turbo)

oh and btw

i would love to try it if someone wants to gimmie a hood to botch up.

 

It sounds like a good idea, but I would never do it. I just dont like the idea of bugs, water when it is raining, and other junk getting in there.

 

If you want it that bad, just buy the mach 1 ram air conversion kit (about $700) for your GT. I find that part, along with plenty of other mach 1 parts, in 5.0 Magazine.

 

Re: Mach 1 shaker system...
I dont think there is a way I can put the thing above my SC...

 

well if you look at what vortec has, they have a kit that you can put the sc around the shaker sys. I bet ifyou call vortec up they can just send you the pieping.....

 

I think it is very possible that if you did a custom functional hood scoop, you could actually loose hp, by taking away from the flow characteristics that Ford has spent a lot of time on.