Anyone have a 67-68 Mustang with a Ford Big Block?

Cobra5.0Jeep · Dec 16, 2009

If so can you post a picture of your airfilter and what kind of hood you went with to get it all to fit under?
I have a 532 in my 68 Fastback with a custom suspension/frame setup and i am looking for an air filter to fit under my 6 inch cowl which i am not even sure will work still, my engine sits pretty high and i can't get it any lower.

Dark Knight · Dec 17, 2009

What intake? Have you tried a drop base setup? Might ask over at 460ford.com , there are a few people running similar setups.

96 DOHC Cobra · Dec 17, 2009

The intake looks like a Victor. Those are pretty tall and cause enough of a clearance problem on their own. The engine appears to be sitting pretty high. Why can't it be lowered any? With the rack & pinion setup and a dual sump pan, you should be able to get the engine down low and help yourself out with the clearance problem. You didn't move the engine back any, did you?

D.Hearne · Dec 17, 2009

Yea the engine looks to be too far forward to me also. That combined with the Victor intake and it's level carb pad, works against him in hood clearance. The engine's tilted about how a factory install is, but the Vic's carb pad ends up tilting the front of the aircleaner up in the front because it's carb pad is parallel with the axis of the crank. A swap to an RPM intake (or anyother intake) will gain him some room as the carb pads are tilted to compensate for the factory engine install angle.

Cobra5.0Jeep · Dec 17, 2009

My oil pan is less than a quarter of an inch from hitting my rack and pinion.

Cobra5.0Jeep · Dec 17, 2009

D.Hearne · Dec 17, 2009

Looks like you're going to have issues with the distributor clearing as well. You can also see clearly how the Vic intake has the carb tilted up in the front. I had a BB 67 with a 390 and 427 and neither came close to hitting the stock hood with low riser & Medium riser heads and intakes (428PI, 428CJ, the 62-63 3x2 and a stock LR 2x4) The 2x4 cleared the stock hood with 1" spacers and the cast oval aluminum air cleaner housing.

Cobra5.0Jeep · Dec 17, 2009

Yeah the distributor might be a problem but the airfilter should be above that so that'll be my main problem.

Dark Knight · Dec 18, 2009

Might look into a tall boss 429 scoop. The distributor will be a problem because it's where a cowl hood slopes down.

Cobra5.0Jeep · Dec 18, 2009

i just measured my hood and the distributor should be fine.

C0V3R · Dec 20, 2009

How is your driveline angle? That motor looks kind of pitched up in one direction.

D.Hearne · Dec 20, 2009

C0V3R said:
How is your driveline angle? That motor looks kind of pitched up in one direction.

That's due to the Victor's carb pad angle, it's parallel with the heads and block instead of with a compensating angle like most other intakes.

2+2GT · Dec 20, 2009

D.Hearne said:
That's due to the Victor's carb pad angle, it's parallel with the heads and block instead of with a compensating angle like most other intakes.

Sounds like a boat manifold.

D.Hearne · Dec 20, 2009

I was thinking more like that pic reminds me of a sinking ship. The hood line slopes forward, the tilt of the engine slopes the other way, magnifying the illusion.

D.Hearne · Dec 20, 2009

The only Ford that I can recall having a leveled engine axis were the old T-Birds.

Cobra5.0Jeep · Dec 21, 2009

C0V3R said:
How is your driveline angle? That motor looks kind of pitched up in one direction.

Less than 1 degree of angle on the driveline

Tanus · Dec 21, 2009

beautiful car, everything about it. maybe a shaker hood set-up, ones that have the big hole in hood, then when closed the filter part fills in gap. either way, please keep us updated with pics. Seeing yours is making me regret selling my full chassis 65 coupe.

Cobra5.0Jeep · Dec 21, 2009

Tanus said:
beautiful car, everything about it. maybe a shaker hood set-up, ones that have the big hole in hood, then when closed the filter part fills in gap. either way, please keep us updated with pics. Seeing yours is making me regret selling my full chassis 65 coupe.

I should be starting it in the next couple of weeks, i got the fuel line in today and tomorrow i am going to tackle the dash wiring, thats all i need to do to fire her up. I have a couple minor things to do but the dash wiring is the biggest project left.

That's a good idea on the shaker hood, i'll keep that in mind if the cowl doesn't work. I do have a stock hood i made into a GT500 hood in my garage. i was thinking i could just cut a hole in the scope and have the aircleaner and stuff stick out of it lol. I wanted this car to be a sleeper but look like a GT500. Didn't realize the 460s are so tall.

Cobra5.0Jeep · Dec 25, 2009

Hood is installed, i got plenty of room. Too much even so someday when i have money to burn i might go with a smaller cowl

rebel65 · Dec 26, 2009

outside pic with the hood :O cmon ; )

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