I love the looks of the cowl induction hoods but i dont have $450 to spend on one. so i was wondering if anyone has ever taken a steel hood scoop (like the one in the picture attached) and welded it onto their stock hood and smoothened out the welds to make it look like a real, functional scoop.

I know alot of you are thinking, if its not functional then why do it, but just bear with me here.

 

A lot of people do it that way. But don't weld, use rivets and bondo or bondo hair to smooth it all out and make it look like a 1pc hood. You can also make it functional very easily if you wished

 

I used a fiberglass type cowl like in your pic, lots easier and cheaper that way to install. I had to cut a hole in the hood for my breather to stick through because the intake/carb/spacer was about 2" taller than the hood line. Put the cowl on so it didnt look so ******* My body guy used urethane for the base adhesive, then pop riveted the flange to the hood-when the hoods up you cant see the rivets and they're basically only there to hold until the urethane dries. Got covered by fiberglass around the edges to blend initially and then cat hair bondo, followed up by light weight bondo. I've helped do 2 other hoods this way ourselves in the garage, even with everything we did after the season of racing you could see spots where the rivets were, like the bondo sunk or something. Mine still looks great, but i guess that's teh difference between letting someone that knows what their doing take care of ya and trying something yourself.\

Before picture:

 

After picture

 

underhood shot, nothings pretty since this was fresh outta the garage from putting back together, but you get the idea of the hole to make it "functional"

 

nice job! it looks like the hood was made that way