Shaker on the 78

Hey there guys. A while back there was a guy on here who had installed a shaker scoop in his Mustang II. I am definatly planning on doing this but I couldn't remember for the life of me who that guy was. He emailed me a long time ago telling me exactly step by step how he did it and where he got his parts etc but I no longer have that email. If someone knows of a thread about this subject or knows who this guy is please forward it on to me. My email address is danimaltheanimal2006@yahoo.com Thank you guys for your time.

Dan

Hey there fella's! Yeah I have spent some time a few years ago looking into shakers. For origanal parts its considerably expensinve from what I've seen on Ebay and several shops I've contacted. I found a place called www.fordramair.com and if you look under Mustang 351c they sell them for 302 and 351 smallblocks. The site says to use a Tarino midplate for the 302 so it will bring the shaker up 3/4inch more. But I don't know if that is with a stock intake or what. See I am running an Edlebrock air gap intake and I will be putting a Nitrous plate between the intake and carb. I don't really know of a good way to find out how much space is between the top of the carb and the hood. And even then how much space is needed for the shaker to fit right and have a correct seal between the gasket and hood. I've heard about the 1 inch offset to the drivers side as far as having to cut the midplate and center the shaker in the middle of the hood. Also I really have no idea exactly what parts are all needed to make this shaker instalation totally complete. At www.fordramair.com it says the whole reproduction kit complete is $475.00 and for the Tarino $600.00. I tried contacting the site and they had never gotten back to me. So I don't know if there is more to the instalation I will need than what they say is the complete set up or what. Its hard to tell from the few pictures they show. I think they only show a base, midplate, and shaker. I'm sure there is more to it than that. Tell me what you guys think about what that site has to offer and get back to me on it. I guess if worse comes to worse I'll try and find the cheapest origanal parts I can find but even then I'm sure it isn't going to be even close to as cheap as the reproduction stuff.

Thanks guys for all your time.

Dan

Well I guess it looks like I'm going to have to figure out a good way of taking some pretty acturate measurements than. If the shaker is a tight fit without having any kind of nitrous plate than I suppose I will not be able to run a shaker on my car. What do you guys know about the cowls that guys on running on the II. What kind of cowl from what vehical and where the got them from. I have seen several II's with a cowl and it does look pretty damn sweet if you ask me. Maybe that will be the route I will have to take. It would be a shame to not be able to run the shaker though. I was really looking forward to that. Thanks guys

Dan

Cowl Induction on the II

Yeah exactly my question also. Where to find the cowl. I've seen several of the II's with the cowl but I don't think I've ever actually seen or heard of any talk of what company they got it from or from off of what car the cowl came from. What I'd really like to do now that I know I won't be able to run a shaker is to put a maybe 2 1/2 cowl on there and make a functional flap for when you hit the throddle it flaps up and down. Now that would be friggin sweet. I wouldn't even know where to find one of those. I couldn't even think of what car even came with one. I'd like to find a steel cowl actually and weld it to the hood and blend it all in and make it look like it was supposed to be there. If anyone knows of what kind of cowl I may be looking for shoot off some info. I'd appreciate it. A while back I seen a yellow II with a cowl that looked real nice. It had a 4.6L I think supercharged and some Torque Thrust II's on it. There out there yuh just gotta contact the guys who had done it and get some insite on this issue. Once again thanks guys.

Dan