Using a power bulge hood for more than looks
10-14-2007, 09:49 PM
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Using a power bulge hood for more than looks
Has anyone found any way to adapt the power bulge hood to a tpi engine for cold air. I know it's easy for a tbi because I've done it. I plan on getting a tpi engine pretty soon. I'll go ahead and say that I can't afford a ram air hood, plus my car was just painted with the power bulge hood.. so please don't go that direction with it. I would like for it to serve a purpose if it can.
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10-15-2007, 02:48 AM
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Re: Using a power bulge hood for more than looks
One problem I thought of when I was thinking about this contraption myself was the alternator. If you can find a way to get around the alternator to get cold air than its quite feezible. I still havent figured that out. Still need to get that hood painted though. Projects never end.
10-15-2007, 01:42 PM
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Re: Using a power bulge hood for more than looks
I hear you lol.. I have plenty of them myself.. I can't think of a way to filter the air if I were to make a hose from the scoop to the intake.. Another idea I had was to buy a ram air box and make a closed contraption from it to the scoop. What do you think about that?
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Re: Using a power bulge hood for more than looks
You're going to be hard pressed due to hood clearance overall, not just at the alternator. I had to remove the hoodliner and trim small sections of the bracing just to get enough clearance for a 3 point strut tower brace. I'm using an SLP cold air kit on mine and the power bulge is open with the screen in place to vent engine heat.
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Re: Using a power bulge hood for more than looks
In one of my old magazines there was an underhood pic of a 1997 Camaro SS, posibly like an SLP edition. Anyway it had the funtional hood scoop. The intake elbow went from the TB, bent towards the drivers side then kept curving 180* back towards the firewall between the plenum and the strut tower. From there it went up to a flat airfilter box that sat on top of the plennum in the rear by the firewall and sealed to the bottom of the hood when closed. I remember wondering at the time if that would work with the power bulge hood if I ever converted to FI. I hope that description made sense. I;ll try to find that picture again to verify the vehicle. Has anyone else seen this set up?
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