Ranger and mustand hoods compatible?

[Waldoduhh]

Anyone know if the ford mustang and ford ranger hoods are compatible at all? I've seen some people just modifying there ranger hoods themselves, but curious if there's a easier way by just swapping the whole hood with a mustang hood.

 

[Dirtman]

No because they are two different vehicles.

 

[Snoranger]

Other than the fact they’re completely different shapes and sizes, I don’t see why it won’t work.

Seriously, you could graft a hood scoop from a Mustang hood onto a Ranger hood... but its definitely not a bolt on option.

 

[Waldoduhh]

Other than the fact they’re completely different shapes and sizes, I don’t see why it won’t work.

Seriously, you could graft a hood scoop from a Mustang hood onto a Ranger hood... but its definitely not a bolt on option.

Ok I will just go that route than. I put my hood back on and drove to work tonight and my truck clearly didn't like that because it made it run worse, but I don't wanna be driving around florida with no hood on, one random rain storm out of nowhere and down goes the ranger.

 

[Dirtman]

Well... I'm officially confused by this thread.

 

[Waldoduhh]

Well... I'm officially confused by this thread.

Lol well noones been able to provide me a useful idea for whats going on with my ranger whether on here or at shops, just irrelevant or already tried ones aside from one tom had, and my ranger seems to run better with the hood off, so I need to find a way to keep the hood on but make it seem like its off. Im on my last idea which is I noticed a few cracks and small holes on my exhaust manifold, so gonna seal those and see what happens. If it don't fix it than I guess shes gonna ride like partial shit until she blows and than ill swap my 2.3 I rebuilt into it.

 

[Snoranger]

Maybe you can put a clear lexan hood on it and trick it.

Have you posted about it on here? I haven’t noticed. We have some pretty sharp people on the forum the can help.

 

[Waldoduhh]

Maybe you can put a clear lexan hood on it and trick it.
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Have you posted about it on here? I haven’t noticed. We have some pretty sharp people on the forum the can help.

Thats badness! And yeah I did like 2 -3 days ago. Only two people responded, one was somewhat helpful in things I hadn't tried but with expected results, rest was already tried, other one was not useful in any way to the problem at hand.

 

[MikeG]

Put mustang body on Ranger frame, problem solved....

Anything is possible with a sawzall and a welder, but some things look a lot better, than others, when you go that route.

 

[Roert42]

 

[MikeG]

Perfect, just needed the front clip, and air scoops at the rear wheels, and a wing....

 

[Ranger850]

@Waldoduhh Try shimming the back of the hood, up by the windshield, up with washers. @PetroleumJunkie412 did this to his ranger for cooling purposes, but it might allow more airflow under your hood, to help your truck run as if there was no hood on it.

 

[Uncle Gump]

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[PetroleumJunkie412]

Lol well noones been able to provide me a useful idea for whats going on with my ranger whether on here or at shops, just irrelevant or already tried ones aside from one tom had, and my ranger seems to run better with the hood off, so I need to find a way to keep the hood on but make it seem like its off. Im on my last idea which is I noticed a few cracks and small holes on my exhaust manifold, so gonna seal those and see what happens. If it don't fix it than I guess shes gonna ride like partial shit until she blows and than ill swap my 2.3 I rebuilt into it.

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[cbxer55]

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That's actually grotesque.

Maybe he's talking about me. I have a steel hood on my Ranger that was rusting. I decided, prior to painting it, to put the old hood scoop that used to be on my Mustang on it. Drilled a bunch of 1.5 holes with a hole saw in the area the scoop mounts. It mounts with four studs and nuts, so it is easy to put on and take off. Also cut two large slots in the hood just inboard of the style lines and put in 2013/14 hood vents. I did these because I want to put some on my Mustang, and used the Ranger as a guinea pig to see if I could do it. Turned out bitching. After all was done, repainted the hood satin black. It's all good. Further plans are I have two small scoops I made from something else that look decent. Going to punch four 1.25 holes in the hood overtop the CAI air filter, then mount the scoops to the hood over the holes. They're already satin black.

I'll snap a few pictures when the wind stops howling and I can clean all the damn dust off the thing. May not be til tomorrow.

The scoop on the Ranger is the one in the first picture. It fit the curvature of the hood just fine. The Mustangs was replaced with a much larger Boss 429 style scoop.

Btw, when the hood heats up from the engine running, the area under the scoop doesn't get near as hot as it does everywhere else. If I idled excessively, I guess it would. And those two heat vents get real hot, due to the hot air constantly flowing out them.