Hood Clearance

[Mopar Fred]

I have a 1967 barracuda I am putting a 383 in it. It has a 383 Victor high rise intake and a brawler carburetor. I was wondering if anyone could help me with a question and that is will this still work under my stock hood? I don’t have the motor in the car yet getting very close though. As everyone knows I have spent a ton of money and not really interested in buying a fiberglass hood at $900 a pop. Thanks.

 

[VAD Gold Rush]

I don't know about the Barracuda, but I have a 400 swapped 74 Scamp. It has an Edelbrock Torker manifold, which is shorter than the Victor. It's topped by a Holley 4150 carb. There's a hole cut in the hood for a reason. The short little velocity stack I put on to keep the elements out of the engine pokes through the hole under the Six Pack scoop.

 

[Dartswinger70]

I knew a guy named Clarence once...

 

[Mopar Fred]

I don't know about the Barracuda, but I have a 400 swapped 74 Scamp. It has an Edelbrock Torker manifold, which is shorter than the Victor. It's topped by a Holley 4150 carb. There's a hole cut in the hood for a reason. The short little velocity stack I put on to keep the elements out of the engine pokes through the hole under the Six Pack scoop.

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Thanks man. It looks like I’m gonna be buying a hood. I don’t know if you know what the M in Mopar stands for Mo money.

 

[Mopar Fred]

I knew a guy named Clarence once...

Ha ha my iPad did not understand my southern vernacular

 

[famous bob]

I have a 1967 barracuda I am putting a 383 in it. It has a 383 Victor high rise intake and a brawler carburetor. I was wondering if anyone could help me with a question and that is will this still work under my stock hood? I don’t have the motor in the car yet getting very close though. As everyone knows I have spent a ton of money and not really interested in buying a fiberglass hood at $900 a pop. Thanks.

definitely not !!

 

[Dan the man]

Thanks man. It looks like I’m gonna be buying a hood. I don’t know if you know what the M in Mopar stands for Mo money.

You may have been making a joke about the M in mopar but it's true. Jeep means, Just Empty Every Pocket.

 

[MMissile]

I lower the engines/transmissions in my sneaky builds. It can be some work, but I don't really like hood-scoops. This will have a Thermoquad on it, with plenty of room.

This was much tighter, and took a bunch taking off 1/8 to 1/4 at a time....

 

[OttawaCharger]

Just keep spacing out the K frame from the chassis with washers until it fits!

 

[MMissile]

We milled billet aluminum blocks for the wagon. It was a great sleeper on the street. It would daylight the tires 1-2", on clean public roads.

 

[EdsWelding]

Like seeing Krusty again Mike, hope you are doing better ! Love the wagon too !

 

[MMissile]

I'm really hoping to have Krusty ready for NATS. Still lots of crap to do.

 

[AJ/FormS]

I have a 68 Barracuda, powered by a 367.
I cut a hole between the inserts, offset towards where the carb was, then mounted a Mr.Gasket oval air cleaner on top of the hood, centered between the bulges. Then I sealed the airhorn to the underside of the hood, when it's closed.
Then I raised those call-out inserts as high as I could, with the studs still barely in the holes, and cut more holes in the hood, under the inserts to let the hot air out. Finally, I drilled thru the fake allen-bolts and installed real allen-bolts to hold it down.
That air cleaner is just two oval alloy plates, and a matching paper oval air-filter. On rain days, I install a KnN oiled filter. Sometimes I stack them cuz I like how it looks.
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This was part of my strategy to stabilize my underhood temps. I can now run at a solid 207*F coolant temp, with unwrapped headers, a 750DP on an AirGap, without fuel issues of any kind, and using 87E10 fulltime.
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Plus, you know, the car goes 93 in the Eighth now, with a little 230/110 cam; so it's making pretty good power.
ok hang on, just so you know;
I'm using a Commando 4-speed and a GVod as a splitter, so, I hit that 93 in Second-over, having used up four gear ratios. My powerband is about 1300>1400rpm