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Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« on: May 31, 2008, 09:14:48 PM »

I got rid of the Aero scoop on my duster and decided to build a cowl scoop. Its bonded fron the underside with 3M panel bond, gonna reinforce with fiberglass cloth and resin. Hood is in bad shape, it almost blew off last year at 135mph when a fastener let go in the middle. Its no loss if I don't like it. Just needs attention.





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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 09:16:13 PM »

looks pretty good to me
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2008, 11:00:53 PM »

that nova kinda looks like duster Wink
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2008, 12:40:58 AM »

You're defeating the whole principal of the cowl hood.  The area at the windshield is a high pressure area.  Your scoop is too close to the windshield to allow enough air in.
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2008, 07:20:13 AM »

farmington is right about the cowl being too close to the windshield. It should be cut back some. Also when doing the reinforcment, I would go with some flat 1/8" aluminum maybe 1.5-2" wide. Glass them on where it needs to be more rigid.
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2008, 11:46:50 AM »

I had planned to get air from the grille like the heads up cars that are not allowed a forward facing hood scoop. I most likely will not have it sealed to the carb till I have a definate setup. The Dominator is out of the hood. On the cowl to to windshield it would be very hard to determine the proper distance.
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2008, 02:20:44 PM »

You're defeating the whole principal of the cowl hood.  The area at the windshield is a high pressure area.  Your scoop is too close to the windshield to allow enough air in.
And how much gap is recommended? My new hood is much longer then my old one but the windshield is not in the car...

BTW, looks good  Cool
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2008, 03:28:31 PM »

I like your hood better than what I have.I believe I read somewhere that you need 2.5" of space from the cowl to the front of the glass.


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« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2008, 05:13:19 PM »

I like your hood better than what I have.I believe I read somewhere that you need 2.5" of space from the cowl to the front of the glass.





I have 2", lexan windshield also flexes.
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2008, 10:28:33 AM »

i like it.
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2008, 05:37:23 PM »

I like it too.   Smiley
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2008, 12:57:02 AM »

Yeah that hood looks good on anything
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« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2008, 08:06:07 PM »

yeah, put me in the love it crowd.   Cheers
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« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2008, 01:51:54 AM »

Oh yeah I dig it!
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« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2008, 04:19:32 AM »

nova in spanish  "no-va"  translated "no go"  lol made it hell to sell to hispanics. I think it looks good actually, I am sure it saved you some $$
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2008, 05:48:22 PM »

we like the cowl hood look!
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #16 on: June 06, 2008, 06:47:42 PM »

1.why are cowl inductions considered to be a chevy hood?
2.why do people say headers are for chevies and all mopars should have exhaust manifolds?
3.Does a cowl induction increase aerodynamics?
1.cause they came on chevies
2.cause MoPars don't need headers to have good power (I love strokers with stock exhaust manifolds...)
3.there are other options that are better, like deleting one set of headlights on a quadlight car and replacing them with air ducts (that's a Buick or Olds thing, but they ran scoops anyway...)
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #17 on: June 07, 2008, 02:46:44 PM »

Loos good. Will you leave it black?
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #18 on: June 08, 2008, 11:00:25 AM »

Frankly, I'm not a fan of cowl scoops - as far as looks are concerned.

They're really the way to go on a drag car though. Your hood won't blow off, they're better aeordynamically, and they give you a TON of badly-needed clearance for taller intakes.
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Re: Your either going to like it or hate it, my Duster hood in progress
« Reply #19 on: June 08, 2008, 01:14:10 PM »

I like cowl hoods, but I think it is too close to the windshield as well.
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