I have an AAR fiberglass hood on my 440 Duster. Probelem is with the motor offset the air cleaner does not sit centered in the scoop at all. Another probelm is to get the air cleaner up in the scoop any amount it needs to be offset.

I still want to be able to keep everything neat and decent looking because this is not a full on racecar. I have some pictures of where the air cleaner needs to sit to be in the scoop and effective if I do a ram air box. My concern is one how it's mounted to the carb and two how bad does it look offset?

I took an idea from a member on FABO and this is what I'm trying to create. To give everyone an idea of what I'm doing. Only difference is I have a six pack hood and I wanted to run the 440 Super Commando pie tin.

I have an extreme top and 3" filter. I've had that stock 43 year old unsilenced air cleaner off my Dart GTS on over a week now and it runs just as good.It actually idles a little better, but that may be the shape of the base plate directing air better. This is about the looks and the function.

On my race car (68 Coronet) I took a sheet of thick aluminum and mounted the air cleaner base to it. It was much bigger than the base and I built a wall of glued down foam that reached to the bottom of the hood. I shaped the foam with an electric carving knife until it was a tight fit. You would have to put in drains on the base if you used it on street car for rain water. The design worked great on a racer and was cheap to build. This was in 1982 and I used a gutted steel hood with a plastic "Mopar Pro Stock" Harwood scoop glassed to it.

I used to have a huge airpan that was the "footprint" of the scoop, with an incorporated air bell and offset filter. Didn't like the pan covering my entire engine, so I came up with this last winter.

Used riv-nuts in the bracing and went with an 11" filter assembly, not ideal, but I could not get any offset bases to work, and I wanted to keep a smooth transition into the carb.