Shaker on the 78

I see you said you said that cowl you had on there was 3 1/4 tall. With what you mentioned you were running under it how much space would you say you have between the air cleaner wingnut and the under portion of the cowl with the hood shut. I like the way it looks alot. My buddy Tom who is the guy painting my car at his shop doesn't like the front and sides how its not blended into the car. I don't really know what to think about that. I've seen some II's with the cowl blended into the car and either its a bad blend job or I just didn't care for the way it looked blended period. And as for the thread about adding metal to the middle portion of the hood, that starts getting me worried. Next thing you know the hood isn't fitting right and I can see nothing but problems. Doing that worries me but I tell you one thing. That would be the way to do it and make the shaker work for me. And it would look sweeter than sweet I think. I don't know how the integrity of the hood would hold up though. I'm sure plenty of reinforcment would need to be added. And if you did lift the middle whatever the extra demension would be that would be how much open space you would have revealing at the back side of the hood by the firewall showing you the engine bay as your driving your car down the road. So then it would be like putting a cowl induction on your car, cutting a hole in the center of the cowl and then running a shaker scoop. It just sounds crazy. I've got some thinking and some homework to do. Plus all these cowls I see are fiberglass I would really like to go steel and weld it on. I'm sure with all this talk about cowls and shakers by the time I actually do figure it out its gonna be friggin awsome. Thanks again fella's. Its all good good information for me. Its helping out alot.

Dan

Oh I forgot to mention how bad I've been wanting to see that DOHC 4.6 again. I forgot what it looked like and have been dieing to see it again. If anyone has pics post em PLEASE!