daty, I don't know if you are having hood clearance issues, but ford motorsports makes a 13" drop base that fits the mopar unsilenced air cleaner perfectly. I got mine for 22 bucks on ebay, summitt sells them for about 40.

in the attachment, the mopar in on the left, ford on the right, has a reall nice drop and clears my carblinkage and bouchillon kickdown easily