I'm wondering if that car is the SS car I'm thinking of or maybe it is a different Modified Eliminator car
I bought a old street racer 1970 T/A Challenger out of Santa Monica, CA that had a steel hood on it with a T/A scoop with a lump on it like in that picture I wonder who was making them back then

I like the suggestion to raise the whole scoop higher. Not that the lump looks bad, I just think raising the whole scoop will look better.

Yes that is what I meant, the scoop might have been a last minute hack but it was done well. I have a feeling that a last minute hack for Dick Landy was full of detail, the lines on the scoop look good.

Good choice!!

Any reason why you don't lower the engine?
I got everything to fit under the stock hood of my 68 GTX..-1's..with 440 2 and 440 3 intakes...

I don't like the bigger opening, raise the whole thing off the hood. Just like the snorkel type of the 70s, one of the best looking, boundary layer, scoops ever.

I like it, mostly because it raises the question "what does he know, and what did he do?" when most cars are clones.

I talked to a friend of mine who has done some extensive restorations about this approach years ago. I don't recall exactly what he told me, but it persuaded me to not go that way in order to increase hood clearance.

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I spoke with the guy who will be doing the work today. Although the original job we discussed was to "lump" it, he's got no problem doing the "raise the roof" job instead. I'll be dropping off the hood on Saturday.

Done. Now I'm in "wait & see" mode for the job to be completed.

Rick's blue Challenger looked BadAzz with that scoop, and running 9.60's with big wheelies didn't hurt either.

Got a call from the shop asking if I can stop by on my way home from work today to check on the hood's progress, and make sure it's what I was looking for before it's completed.

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Cool Brad..............

This is what it looks like this afternoon.

And here's your basic Drag Pak scoop... along with the rest of the car.

To each his own but me no likey.

1/2" to high IMO, but it will function better the way it is.

First scoop to low, this scoop to high, scoop somewhere in the middle Just right. Goldy...

I like it a lot.

If it doesn't sit well with me in the long run, I can buy an AAR / Stinger Fiberglass T/A replica hood and put it back the way it was.

1" wasn't going to get me the additional height I wanted. There was only ~.3" between the 3" Moroso drop-base air cleaner and the underside of the scoop, with the carb on the intake with nothing else but a gasket. Even with the torque strap, the engine might be able to rock enough on its mounts to close up that little amount of clearance even more.

I want enough additional room to be able to test .5" to 1" spacers, increase the air filter height, etc. I figured out how much more clearance was needed for these options and the minimum increase came out to 1.5", which is what you're seeing now in those pics.

I think it looks good Brad. I have something similar,
AAR/Stinger's bolt on A-body hood with 4 1/2" Twin Snorkel(1031XLSc). I got to give Dustedu a big thumbs up, I saw it on his car and he gave me all the imfo...