Originally posted by Mike P


Why not just leave the hood hanging on the garage wall and run it without a hood?
C'mon -- where's the fun in that?

Besides, I have to be able to park this sucker on the street -- it's going to be my gig car (I'm a sax player in a 40's-50's jump blues band.) On that, I'm open to suggestions as to how to lock the scoop & carbs down. . . .

By the time you get through making the hole big enough for the tunnel ram and scoop (not to mention the legnth of the hole to get the hood up and down if your going to leave it hinged) your not going to have much of a hood left.
The scoop has a much larger footprint -- 9X20" -- than the tunnel ram will have as it crosses the plane of the hood. If the hood truly levered directly up and down, theoretically I could cut it exactly to fit. But of course it doesn't; the hood latches curve outward as it goes up, so I'll have to make the hole longer. How much longer, I'm not entirely sure, but I'm fairly certain I'll have enough metal left. It works out on paper.

Of course, this is the moment where Wile E. Coyote discovers that the tunnel is only painted on the canyon wall. . . .