In my case engine placement dictated what scoop I could use. Besides it sort of grew on me. What mopar scoop is at least 5" high all the way to the back of the hood? My motor is up about 3-4 " and back about 6". The back of the air cleaner is at the back of the hood.

Alot of those cowl hoods I don't like. Some I do though..

I think for me personally the only car I ever wanted to put a cowl hood on was a project I had planned, a 440 tunnel ram 2x4bbl Jensen Interceptor. Never built the Jensen, so that's where the cowl hood ideas stopped.

I've seen MoPars where the cowl hoods looked good, but I've seen more Mopars that looked BAD with cowl hoods...

Going from our iron head 360 to the W5 340 with Indy intake and blended spacer for dominator mandated a change from the Dart Sport scoop we used to run. By the way....my dad does not like this scoop but it works.

I don't like GM type cowl hoods on any Mopar.But to each his own.

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Cowl Hood Scoops.. Why on a MOPAR?????

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Because there's a bunch of closet Chebbie fans

Besides, they look right at home on a Camaro...I mean, Challenger

Someone who is good with Ma Mopars archives ,,you will find that Chrysler actually was the first of the companies to fool around with a cowl hood ,,if memory serves me correct it was in the early to mid 50's so actually Chebby is copying us

Adam ,I know who you are and even though i helped build that cuda many years ago..I always liked the original hood and scoop that was on the car..when he changed to that cowl on the Cuda..i never liked it..Just my preference...I do agree that some cars look ok with it but others dont..someone need to mold us Mopar guys a few new style scoops..

At least I got that line out of the middle of mine to be a 'little' different than the Chevy's.

Dale,
Spot on!

340Shorty,



Well at least those tunnelvision-scoopies help excavating the hot air under the hood I guess and releave the underhood pressure in the process if you have an unsealed hood.
IMO the most 2" ones still look fairly ok, but anything over 3" is plain dorky.
And, besides an airscoop facing rearward looks unlogical, I also THINK rearfacing scoops just don't work.

When I take my own cars as an example, when I go driving just after it rained, the drops on the front/middle of the hood are all forced back by the wind, and when they're at the rear of the hood near the windscreen they all kinda lay there and just run of to the sides when taking a corner.

By the way, what's the reasoning behind this NMCA-rule with scoops having to face the wrong way?

has really nothing to do with them being a chevy. I just think there butt ugly. looks like someone flipped a boat over and stuck it on a hood

If they worked so great as some say prosstockers would be using them. Are they??? NOT. Don't say it is because their scoops are not fastenened to the hood. That problem could be worked out.
I know for a fact that I lost ET when I gave one a try even if it were fugly. Function over fashion. There are getting to be more Chevie guys running the "Mopar" scoops. Well at least they are facing the right way.