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Daves_foxbody89

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I have a 1989 ford mustang and was wanting some ideas and pictures of foxbodys different types of hoods on your fox's. Thanks in advance
 

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wonder how much it would cost to ship you a pair
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Here is a thread of fox car pics, I think you car see some hood choices there.

Post pics of how your foxbody currently sits

pics of how your foxbody currently sits
www.stangnet.com
 

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New hood and painted gloss yesterday. Still torn between matte and gloss. Anyways, the gloss one is a 3 inch cowl from trufiber. The matte one is actually the wrong hood cut to fit but has a 2.5 cowl.
 

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Driver460sz said:
New hood and painted gloss yesterday. Still torn between matte and gloss. Anyways, the gloss one is a 3 inch cowl from trufiber. The matte one is actually the wrong hood cut to fit but has a 2.5 cowl.
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Looks great
 

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Daves_foxbody89 said:
Looks great
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Waiting to paint mine with rest of car eventually lol
 

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Hoytster

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Cobra R Fiberglass Hood.


 
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Consider leaving the stock hood.
I'd go on a rant about how wrong the majority of hoods look on a foxbody, but i'd probably insult half the membership.
I have a 1.5 cow and even that's too much for me, if my engine clears when I get the car painted, it will go back to stock.

Just remember, the only thing that truly matters when buying a hood is the quality fit and finish.
And cheap hoods don't have the safety catch necessitating hood pins.
If a better hood is $600, pay the $600...
 
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2000xp8 said:
And cheap hoods don't have the safety catch necessitating hood pins.
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Or even if it's a good fiberglass hood with the proper catch and you don't want it to come up at 120+
 

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Hoytster said:
Or even if it's a good fiberglass hood with the proper catch and you don't want it to come up at 120+
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We have plenty of threads about [that] topic, around here too.
 

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I bought the car with this hood. I don’t hate it, but will be going back to stock at some point.
 

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This is a nice Mustang Hoodie
 
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atey950 said:
I bought the car with this hood. I don’t hate it, but will be going back to stock at some point.
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How much for ur hood
 

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Making my own scoop/ram air all steel hood.



87-93 hood, hand fabricated SVO style scoop. Building it to be ram air, ducting within the hood and dumping to K&N cone filter in stock air box location.

Why? To be different and why not. I have had some time on my hands. Hopefully prepped and painted sometime this summer and on the car.
 
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Not quite the impressive fabrication of KRUISR , but stock hood with older GT style scoop needed for clearance of my 393w.
Added some satin black wrap because I wanted to try some Mach I style graphics.
 
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I have the Cervinis ram-air hood, which was on my fox when I bought it. I would prefer a stock hood or small cowl but will probably stick with this for a while.

 

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I have another fabrication that is partially complete. Again all steel. Essentially 1" rise cowl hood with an all steel replication of the 99-04 center recess section and hood scoop.




It needs more work than the SVO style hood above. The scoop is removable and will get a grill or mesh of some sort to keep debris out. I am thinking it will get same ram air routing as my other hood. Still a lot of smoothing and finishing required. I started it first but it is on the back burner for now.

Obviously not finished but maybe it inspires someone to try something on their own and a little different.

My inspiration for this hood is a pic I modified from two I downloaded from American Muscles website depicting hoods...

 
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KRUISR said:
I have another fabrication that is partially complete. Again all steel. Essentially 1" rise cowl hood with an all steel replication of the 99-04 center recess section and hood scoop.




It needs more work than the SVO style hood above. The scoop is removable and will get a grill or mesh of some sort to keep debris out. I am thinking it will get same ram air routing as my other hood. Still a lot of smoothing and finishing required. I started it first but it is on the back burner for now.

Obviously not finished but maybe it inspires someone to try something on their own and a little different.

My inspiration for this hood is a pic I modified from two I downloaded from American Muscles website depicting hoods...

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Almost like cowl induction, but with front intake? Interesting! What’s your side view vision? This pic is kinda cool...... and different!
 

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Side view vision? As in what do I think the side profile will look like? I haven't taken a pic of it on the horizontal side view, but could do so on the weekend and post.

If I recall correctly the recess is about 3/4" at start of scoop and a total of 2.5/2.75" scoop opening as shown in second pick. So top of scoop is about 1.75-2" above cowl rise. No holes currently cut in the cowl opening, just extended factory underhood framing to new height. I may cut some slots for heat removal but hasn't been done yet.
 

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Yeah..... just wondering what it would look like at that angle. I like where you’re headed though!!
 

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Here is the cowl hood part on my stang a while back.




I build that first and had some body work issues so I stripped it down to start over. Before I got too deep into fixing it I got this vision. Part way through construction of the new hood I got the inspiration of the steel SVO inspired hood and started that.

The cowl rise is unchanged to today, so picture the scoop on top.


One final wacky idea for this hood is once I have the scoop/recess/cowl all dialed in.... I have pondered cutting the hood and making it a SHAKER scoop.
 
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