Cowl Hoods for Grand National?

[Fryguy]

What cowl hoods do you guys use on these cars?

I really like the stock hood, but I want to try some stuff that will require more clearance for the intake manifold. What 'glass cowl hoods fit nice and clear taller intake manifolds on these cars?

 

[longball]

gbodyparts.com sells a steel 2" cowl induction hood. I just ordered one. Hartline Performance sells a stock looking fiberglass hood that fits good. Not sure it will clear a taller intake
manifold. Might want to give them a call.

 

[87LimitedT]

I havent tried these guys out but a cosin of mine got a sunoco hood for his 04 GTslOw and had no fitment issues at all, i want to pick one up for my truck and my 83.

http://www.vfnfiberglass.com/site.htm

 

[Heisenberg]

Screams Monte Carlo
The aftermarket hood insulator + the fiberglass hood provide a fair amount of clearance.

Just to try to change your mind- I submit to you the following pictures.

 

[coach]

Screams Monte Carlo
The aftermarket hood insulator + the fiberglass hood provide a fair amount of clearance.

I completely agree..."Cowl Induction" is all Chevy. Sacrilege on a Buick.
It's your car...All's fair


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[turbojoe1]

Yuck

 

[87boostin]

Don't do it bro

 

[longball]

Man, them cars look cool! Lots of people call my GN a Monte anyway. Maybe if everyone thinks I have a Monte it will be a little easier to line up
some races for cash. There is a lot of money to be made around here in the warm weather!

 

[Heisenberg]

Just keep your intake reasonable, ditch the spacer, ditch the vacuum block and run your vacuum off the plenum, run a fibergalss hood and you won't have to turn in your Buick card.

 

[notacarlo]

All I have to add is....as long as you have enough mill to back up the extra space....and its a 455 or 231.....I'm good with it. Look those guys buy those giant hoods and have enough room under there to put another LS on top.

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[6LE Designs]

If there's enough interest we'll produce the hood we made for my car...

Originally we cut holes for GNX vents but they look small and out of place. Tomm it is getting these vents (like GNX but 60% bigger, like the bump)...

We could make the hood with or without the vents though...

 

[Pronto]

Those vents look interesting.

 

[turboc87gn]

6le I like the hood ittl look sweert when its done and its unique like the rest of the car instead of a standard issue cowl...I traded my glass cowl for a glass turbo hood on my turbo t...

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[Reginald D. Harrid]

I like that hood and vent

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[RUBRMAN]

Love the hood and the vents. What wheels are those 6le? Would almost like the vents a little further down the hood. It could vent some heat from the turbo? The other over the air filter. How much would a hood like that cost?

 

[6LE Designs]

First of all thanks for the appreciation! Usually people on here don't like what i"m doing lol... Second of all, pricing would be the around the same as any HIGH QUALITY fiberglass hood (we used to make in China, it is crap, we used to go with low production in the states guys, better but still bleh, now we ONLY private label NEW parts through RK Sport, they've been doing it for decades and fitment on our new stuff has been amazing) that you see on RK Sport's website.

The rims are CCWs I had on my blue Camaro. Had to use stupid big spacers on them but I'm going to remake the front a-arms and spindles for bigger brakes and will just change the car's offset then so I don't have to. The idea of using them was to mimic stuff on the new GNX. I'm also designing a grille similar to this (minus the center emblem and adding back our off to the driver side BUICK emblem) for the car...

I would have done the vents a little lower BUT there's stuff that wouldn't clear. Also looked weird when I placed them lower. Now that I have the bigger vents though (so they go further down the hood) I'm sure it will vent some turbo heat for sure...

The flat black is temporary. It was just to protect the raw metal scoop and sort of hide the inch of bondo we uncovered when we cut the hood, lol! Thoughts? We could probably produce the hood in an order or 30 for $695, 20 for $795 or 10 for $895... That's just the quotes we got on a Camaro hood we were going to do. Mold alone is $7,000 to $10,000 but we're willing to invest in it if people are interested.

 

[Jay J]

Have you thought about selling the vents by themselves?

 

[6LE Designs]

You can buy them already just search the watermark on the pic....

 

[HotAirGN]

I bought a bolt on 4" Cowl from Glasstek but when I install it I cannot raise the hood up too far before the cowl hits the windshield. The hood is on a 87 Regal with hood shocks. Should I just trim the cowl back (would rather not) or can I just change my hood shock to a up and out type hinge?

 

[Fryguy]

Just keep your intake reasonable, ditch the spacer, ditch the vacuum block and run your vacuum off the plenum, run a fibergalss hood and you won't have to turn in your Buick card.

I tried that, but the hood still looks like this:

Thanks for the suggestions guys, please keep 'em coming.

I love that steel hood posted above, but I really want glass. Car is way too heavy already.