Spacer needed for tall ford racing valve covers?

84convertablegt · Feb 14, 2006

I am planning on running tall ford racing valve covers. I have done a foxbody cobra intake conversion. I know i will need a spacer. do i need a 1 inch or a 3/8 inch and the big question is how much can i fit under a stock hood? if this all wont fit, its gonna scrap my plan. any help is appreciated?

KBCobra95 · Feb 15, 2006

WHen I did my H/C/I swap on my 95 cobra I did the tall valve covers. First I bought the 1 inch spacer. Turns out it hit where the egr connects on the 95 intake elbow. So a fox set up should help this. I wound up buying another 3/8 spacer and stacked them in order for my KB to clear good. Stock hood will not fit. Not sure about with just and 1 inch spacer, if the hood will fit. Cowls look better anyway!

zenboy99 · Feb 15, 2006

They'll also hit the alternator I believe, but you can just grind away in that area.

My Performer intake rubs the hood blanket pretty good with a 3/8" spacer. The TPS sensor also digs into the hood. But I think your Cobra sits a little lower than the Performer.

yellowclone · Mar 16, 2006

84convertablegt said:
I am planning on running tall ford racing valve covers. I have done a foxbody cobra intake conversion. I know i will need a spacer. do i need a 1 inch or a 3/8 inch and the big question is how much can i fit under a stock hood? if this all wont fit, its gonna scrap my plan. any help is appreciated?

I had to run a 1 inch spacer with my GT40 and the pcv hose is sitting right on top of the valve cover. With the 1 inch spacer, I also had to put a spacer behind the fuel rail so that the fuel regulator fit and with doing that, the cruise control cable did not want to fit, so I used a 3/4 inch egr delete plate and still had to space out the throttle cable bracket which also rest on top of the valve cover. Other than that, they fit perfect LOL.

18mustangs · Mar 18, 2006

84convertablegt said:
I am planning on running tall ford racing valve covers. I have done a foxbody cobra intake conversion. I know i will need a spacer. do i need a 1 inch or a 3/8 inch and the big question is how much can i fit under a stock hood? if this all wont fit, its gonna scrap my plan. any help is appreciated?

The throttle cable bracket will hit the tall VCs without a spacer. Ford claims the tall VCs need a 1" spacer, and you may have clearance issues with the alternator. A couple of people I know with those VCs on SNs had to do a little grinding near the alternator on the VCs for proper clearance.
Tim

diablostang · Mar 18, 2006

.... Carb it

hillie16 · Mar 18, 2006

zenboy99 said:
My Performer intake rubs the hood blanket pretty good with a 3/8" spacer. The TPS sensor also digs into the hood. But I think your Cobra sits a little lower than the Performer.

My performer rubs with NO spacer

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