I may need to add a scoop to my 71 300 for clearance for the air cleaner. I have a 440 with the Edelbrock RPM intake and Performer carb, when I tried to put the mopar performance air cleaner on it sticks way to high to close the hood. Any ideas for an air cleaner or scoop that would look good. I may just go back to the duel snorkel air cleaner I have.
Question about hood scoops, anybody put them on a C-Body and look good ??
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Why even think about changing out a dual snorkel in the first place???
Dont answer that, I'm just voicing that opinion thing again.
check summit or Jegs, they might offer a base for your aftermarket air cleaner that has more drop around the outside diameter for hood clearance.
Dont answer that, I'm just voicing that opinion thing again.
check summit or Jegs, they might offer a base for your aftermarket air cleaner that has more drop around the outside diameter for hood clearance.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
That dual snorkel is totally useless and not worth much. I'll trade you the Sawzall blade and the Bondo you will need for it.
Take some tin foil and make a 2" ball and set it on top of your aftermarket air cleaner and close the hood slowly. You'll be able to check if it'll clear that way. My formal has tons of room. I have an Eddie intake, carb, 14"x 3" air filter and spacers and a another spacer adapter to clear the electric choke and it doesn't even come close to hitting the hood.
70NPORT
Old Man with a Hat
You are bad.
Nice one......LOL!
LOL.. I knew I would catch flak for that, but I wanted to use the air cleaner that matched the cast MP valve covers mostly for looks then anything else. I'll have to double check the clearance again.
bulldogchesty
Senior Member
Dam, and I wanted that dual snorkel air cleaner too.
Samplingman
Old Man with a Hat
I wish I had a factory air cleaner, this just looks dumb.
On my 78 NYB.......
azblackhemi
Old Man with a Hat
Here's an option to give you a little more room under the hood. A very expensive and time consuming option but it looks good.
cld
Active Member
This is a great tip. I got it off these forums a few months ago and did it on my '68 383. I use an old Mopar Performance tin with a 3" K&N.
cld
Active Member
I had to get rid of the dual snorkel. Love that open air cleaner induction roar when the secondaries open up.
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
I have never been a fan of this sort of swap, it'll always look like a Challenger hood on another car.
Alan
dagwoodspolara
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I just got done putting an RPM on a low deck in a slab side ('68). I was able to find a drop base air cleaner to fit under the stock hood. If the fuselage cars have the same underhood clearances as a slab, I would venture to say that you are looking at a hood scoop, given the 440's extra deck height. What most dont understand is that an RPM is an inch (give or take) taller than almost any other dual plane intake., and taller than most singles.
Those old valve covers you got aren't worth diddly either. I'll give you the sawzall, the bondo and $10.00 for the dual snorkel and the valve covers. Hell. I'll even pay the shipping. . .
Wildaugust
Senior Member
I like that. Depending on what hood was the donor, it can look very nice. I have a magazine pic of a Cougar with it's hood re-skinned from a mid-seventies Camaro/Firebird (can't remember which) and it looks really good. I also have a pic of a '73 Charger with a re-skinned hood from some other car, it was featured on a calendar. I agree that it is an awful lot of work and expense to go through just for an air breather, so, unless you wanted to customize the appearance of the car anyway, it's probably not worth it.
Personally, I would try to find a filter of the same diameter that wouldn't make the air breather quite as high or try to find a drop base, as mentioned, or both. I might also consider not putting a filter in the breather at all. Instead, if it were me, I might close it in with aluminum or sheet metal and run ducts to the front of the car, then use after market filters at the ends of the ducts, like guys do for turbo installations.
Just a thought.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Love you like a brother big guy but you know how I feel about that....
Ya, didn't have much of a choice. Nothing worked, LB, TQ, valve covers were warped and wouldn't seal.
The Newport will keep the factory intake, air cleaner, valve covers (maybe). They are leaking and I just got a new set of gaskets. I'm going to convert the LB.......it isn't working. I'm going to replace the front brake pads, rotors, calipers, hoses and flush the brake fluid. I hope the brake booster isn't shot...I'll know after I get the front brakes in order. And that's just the beginning. I have to rebuild the Torqueflite and I don't know if there is a problem with the rear axle yet.
Wildaugust
Senior Member
Here's a pic of a 383 with an Edelbrock Performer RPM intake and (Edelbrock?) carb under the hood of a '71 Newport that was featured in the December 2003 issue of Mopar Muscle. They did not have to cut the hood. 
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