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Old Sep 24, 2008 | 05:44 PM
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Default Re: that one free hood mod ?

Originally Posted by catfSSh
I've actually seen it "done right" on a fuel injected motor.

A few stangs I've seen have a cowl hood, feeding almost directly into the intake. I'm pretty sure they were 5.0's

But yea, in most applications that imports do this; it isn't done to its potential.
You can usually get higher pressure, cooler air with a small, forward facing scoop. Not sure why you'd want to put a cowl hood on a fuel injected setup when you can have your pick of where to get your air from, but whatever. Not my Mustang, don't care.