I have a 1989 Formula and I was wondering how can I make the Cowl Induction hood functional.

 

I assume you are talking about the power bulge hood (if that's not what it's called please correct me because that doesn't sound quite right to me). I hate that it is closed off, too.

Take off the plate that closes it. The only problem I see with this is that when you are stopped or parked, water and crap would have a great way to get under the hood. You can prevent the crap from getting in by replacing the plate with a mesh screen (you could even get it body colored, chromed, whatever, oh my!).

The other idea I have heard is to drill holes in the plate. If you drill holes in a nice pattern it would look decent.

The biggest problem I see is water coming in. Obviously the stock plate isn't completely water tight as it is only held on by 4 screws (3 on mine--I lost one ) However, the stock piece does a pretty good job or keeping water out. If you drilled holes in the plate but left a portion at the bottom alone, I would think that you could get a decent compromise. I would prefer a mesh screen, though, myself.

I need to go back out and work on my car right now (don't want to sit here and think ), but does anyone have a good idea of how to open up the hood AND keep water out? I'm not worried about water entering while driving. I am concerned with the situation of the car being parked in the rain or something (no garage at school, lol). What did the second gens use?

 

I had a '84 T/A and it had a Factory fiberglass hood w/cowl induction, it had a special air cleaner that had the lid in the hood and a realy cool solnoid accuated butterfly in the "power bulge" (by the way the car caught fire on me and the insurance company baught it - $2800- or i'd give you the RPO code for it, man i wish I had that car still it had all the power options oh well I'm on my 4th F-body)

 

are you guyz talikng abouty this hood....
casue if you are thisis called the powerbuldge hood

 

Thanks, I thought it was called power bulge but I wasn't sure.

 

Yeah I have one or those closed off power bulge hoods. I would go to a junkyard and look for one but I dont want to driver 20 minutes there just yet. What I Was thinking is to get some kind of motor and turn the plate into a butterfly. When its not raining outside I will hit a button that I can designate right next to the defrost button. That will open the buter fly and if I hit it again that will close the butterfly. You know I have a spare motor from a electric hatch, I could use that. Hell yeah now I have something to do today. Thanx for striking up a real good idea for me.

 

redbird....how would you go about doing that, liek how would you make it so that the motor will open and close it??? when you figure it out let me know, show me some pictureds of where nad how you mounted the motor and how you wired it and whutnot, i have been trying to figure out how to make that work for sooo long, i owuld love osme help...thanks!!!!!!!!!

 

My car had the:
I've got it sitting somewhere in my Garage at home, since the solenoid died, and I can't find a replacement solenoid anywhere. I can have some pictures for you by the 30th of the month, when I go back home if you wish.

 

yeah that would be great, pics would be really great, i jsut wanan know how it works and stuff so i can make one of my own...thanks

 

excuse the ingorance but whast a Cow hood does it bulge like a cows belly or something crazy like that? :lala: :lala: :lala: :lala:

 

A cow hood has udders and **** on it

A cowl hood has a large gap in the back of the hood to allow air to excape the engine compartment and the area of low preasure at the bottom of the wind shiel to force cold air into the engine compartment.

You would have to route ducting to the rear of the engine compartment and place the filter back there Something like a 96-97 ss filter assy. could possibally work but you would loose the effect in the bends just like the 96-97ss cars did. Basicly get a cold air kit for the car and you are still in the same place as making the cowl hood functionable. You would probably get more air with the cold air kit.

 

the one I had accuatally sucked air from the power bulge

 

I had the cowl induction hood from an 83 TA in my old 82. I never got around to hooking it up though so it would open based on throttle position like it was supposed to though... It certainly looked to be set up to suck air into the engine (it was sealed with the air cleaner assembly when the hood was closed). That's why it's called cowl *induction*. I'm not sure exactly how it works though. High pressure area at the base of the windshield or something like that.

Reading one of the tech articles for mods for Formulas was the first time I'd ever heard the notion that it sucked air out of the engine bay.

Does anyone know for sure?