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Originally Posted by NKOTB
I bought my car just a about a month ago, and am in the process of refreshing it in terms of general PM, tuning, and authenticity. I'm heading in the pure street style direction(no side pipes, no scoop, no stripes, no bar), and am currently mulling over what to do with my engine in terms of it's height in the frame - it sticks up about 1-2 inches above the hood plane. What I think I have is a 428CJ (C6ME, 352 stamp) block with iron heads, a C3AE-H 427 low rise intake and a holley 750 1x4 carb setup. Part of me would like to get the height down so I can use a solid hood, a la' steet style, and I'm thinking a blue-thunder mid-rise intake would get me there... but I have come up with the following questions for the group:
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- Is there anything particulary good or wierd about the build I have?
- In terms of street style authenticity, other than 2x4's, am I headed in the right direction?
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You don't seem to have anything that's out of the ordinary, higher than normal. You may want to find somebody else with a FE contempoary and compare engine mounts.
Because a cobra hood is rounded, it is higher in the center than at the edges. I found a good way to measure hood clearence was to get a radio antenna, and tape it to something inside the engine compartment where you want to measure clearence, close the hood which compresses the antenna to the maximum clearence. You may be surprised how much clearence you have.