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Arctic Snake, looks very similar to what I did, but I used a 9" with an X-Stream top (which has no steel plate by the way). Anyway I noticed a difference right away between pan/no pan.

They use this foam to seal scoops on pro stock cars, I don't think it will take much hurt on our cars. There isn't much ram air effect on these short scoops anyway.

The Eddy Pro Flo filters have no metal plate and I can say they don't last very long if you have a flame up through the carb. And you get some pretty big flames with two plug wires transposed on the distributor cap.

I spent about $13 for the sheet aluminum and $20 for the foam and contact cement to stick it on with.