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Jim,

Thanks for your response. What you say is true, but I'm pretty confident that it's a 428...

I guesss what I'm still trying to answer is the hood clearance question & if changing intakes will drop the upper assemblies enough to clear a solid hood.

As a bonus, I was hoping someone would help me with ideas on how to get the most reliable performance out of what I could go to with a lower height intake...