I have a 88 Tbird 5.0 and I just got a turbo coupe hood for it. I was wondering if anyone has been able to make the scoops directly functional into the air intake of a 5.0, and if so, please share how if you don't mind. Thanks for your time.
carburated cars, or cfi cars can use them, provided its not raining lol.
My Tbird is an EFI, and it has an air intake box on the passenger side quarterpanel, I believe. The hood we got even came with the scoop tunneling and stuff on the underside where it would put air directly into the 4cyl, and I was just wondering if there is anyway to re-route it for the 5.0.
the scoops on the 87-88 TC feed fresh air to the intercooler, it doesnt have to be dry, as it's not going into the motor to be part of the combustion cycle...
Hookin' the scoops up to an intake/carb/cold air intake, is probably a no-no
Yeah I figured that... :( Thanks for the info.
it would be similar to the hood on my mustang if you wanted to make it functional. You would have to build an airbox to receive the air coming from the hood.https://www.cervinis.com/product.aspx?car=1&id=1122#9007
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And that would take care of the rain/water problem? Oooh that would be very cool. I might try that at some point.
near impossible with the stock 5.0 brackets and distributor. both are in the way.
The way the scoops are located on the hood I don't think they'd ram much air into the engine at speed anyways. Now if someone could figure out how to do a shaker like the 2004 Mach1 that would be pretty cool :D
Yeah, that would look really cool! But hey, even with the turbo coupe scoops, a little extra clean, cool air never hurts :) .
I don't think the ducting fits with the hood closed on a 5.0 though. If you remove it you should plug the scoop, unless you want water dumping on your distributor:nono:
So you want to make that ram air Mach1 shaker work;) ?
Unless it was like my 84 with the round air cleaner. Is that considered cfi? Just cut two holes in the front and run tubing Is what I would like to do.
I'd love to try making a shaker hood for it, but right now there's a lot of other things we're workin on :( bleh. Someday......
I think the effort required to hook up the scoops to the intake would definitely not be worth the small gain.
First off it'd be no better than a regular cold air intake with the filter down in the fenderwell.
Second, the factory ducting is in no way shape or form sealed to the hood or to the scoops. I think it'd be a huge headache just trying to make the whole thing "airtight" enough that you could get enough air coming in to be beneficial.
Basically you'd have to build your own ducting and yeah, that sounds like a lot of work.
I suppose hooking it up to a carb air cleaner would be easier, but you'd still have to deal with the fact that the ducting would have to seal to the hood and blahhhh....
http://www.stangnet.com/reviews/banshee/
Adaptable to our cars?
Our cars would have to have the same ammount of hood clearance Id think or it would look like ass unless you put a spacer in or something which could possibly be done to raise it if our hood sits closer to the intake the hood isnt going to be able to press down on it like it does on that car which would mean leaks around the hole for it when it rains and such.
Hmm this looks like it might work. The only thing that bothers me about it is the fact that it only works with the stock intake. When I go to an Explorer or Cobra intake I'm screwed......
hmm, might have to get creative with some spacers, but I dont see why it wouldnt work. My only problem would be cutting up a hood. Man tc hoods would start looking funny,(not to menton any "sleeper" cars)
I wouldn't mind cutting up one of my Mark hoods to try that out.. but I have a spare if I mess up. :p
That is cool, and it would look cooler on a Mark.
well I got one just chilling out in my back yard, just a couple of dents. I dont want a ram air set up, at least not to spring for it right before I become unemployed again.\
If anyone wants to send me theirs(ram air) I will install it with pictures and then send it back to them ;)
Well once I get my turbo coupe hood painted and put on my car, I'll have my old regular Tbird hood...so maybe that could be a nice spare to use since it's in fine shape :) .
ahem....go modular ;)
anyway, i was once thinking about putting a turbo coupe hood scoop into the bassenger side fender and making a cold air/ram air.
also...im not sure the banshee shaker hood is available anymore. i think roush makes or at least made one. either way they are friggin expensive. hell, even the take off 03-04 mach w shakers are going for an easy 300-500 with no brackets or ducting....its retarded. super cool though.