Jason, Thomas Hackmann has the scoops on his Grabber hood opened up. He also has created a collector box of sorts for directing the air into his air filter. He had a pic of the underside of his hood posted at one time, but the pic isn't archived. I've reposted it here for you. Hope this helps. John B.
I could only get it to work with the mustang II front end because the upper shock mount is right behind the scoop. I still had them open with the stock front end and the top of the shocks looked cool in there. You might still be able to make them work it would just take more fabricating. As far as function goes I doubt that it has any positive pressure. I does get cooler outside air it also gets alot of bugs and dust and stuff.
I was thinkin' of maybe running tubing from them.. that hooks upt to them.. sorta like vacuum cleaner tubing but bigger, which would run right to a air cleaner thingy...
one of the guys at the track here has an old dual snorkel air filter and has 2 tubes going to the front radator mounting assembly. i think the tubing is silver dryer hose. the whole thing is really nice looking. i think a few years back one of the mags did an article on taking an air filter and added a second snorkel to it.
I bought a spare set this spring and opened them up. Just got them back from painting and have only got to drive it once on a cool evening. I don't think they will help much for feeding any additional air to the carb itself, I was just after cooler under hood temps this summmer. Our engine bays are tight and I have headers and it gets quite warm under there during the summer and every little bit helps.
They're not too low---they actually do catch air. What's the best method for opening them up? There's really no way to clamp them down for cutting, without gouging or bending them up. I was gonna try to have some fiberglass ones made and just open them...
It took me some time and patience. I basically hand held them on a good surface while doing it. I started by drilling holes all around the perimeter. After that I took a dremmel cutting/grinding bit and connected all the drilled holes(watch out for the stud that is right behind the opening). Then I used the grinding tool a bit more but found out that the dremel coarse sanding wheel worked the best to smooth it down. There is a little lip on the inside all the way around beyond the patterned metal that I was going to keep but after tearing it up in a few places I wound up just grinding it down too and blending it in. It was some work and took me several hours over a couple of evenings over the winter. I think its going to pay off this summer. I might still build a little custom grills for them yet right now they are just open.
For grills, use the mesh that is made for stucko siding on houses. It looks EXACTLY like the original fake mesh pattern...You can probably epoxy it in...
