1987 Ranger hood scoop

[grsjax]

Looking at the intake plumbing on this truck (2.9L v6) it looks like it would be easy to put a cone air cleaner on the intake hose and add a scoop to the hood to feed outside air to the air cleaner. Anyone tried this? How did work, any difference in performance?

 

[straycat]

I am sure there are custom stuff on a website to buy a set up for your 4 cy. I have had a cone intake and the polished tube set up on all of my Rangers and BII's. I never put a scoop on one of my trucks before. I am not a big hood scoop fan. But... if that is what you want, then get it.

Try a Google search for funcional scoops and see what you find. You might have to have one molded to the truck. I am not sure I have seen a stick on ones that have openings in them to run tubing through. I know you can get a real hood/scoop setup but they are not cheap!!! Maybe you can check with those Trophy Truck race sites and see who builds their body work?? They have some super nice body work...some of the neatest front ends and hoods I have ever seen.

 

[spdcrazy]

i did one on my b2. not for power, but there was already a hole in the hood. had to do something. nothing really bad about it, i like the look. and its something different.

 

[Mac]

Hood scoops are not really effective unless you get about 4" above the hood, just not much air flow close to the hood.
Dave

 

[straycat]

Hood scoops are not really effective unless you get about 4" above the hood, just not much air flow close to the hood.
Dave

+1

 

[mhughes165]

generally i think a hoodscoop might not be the best idea....but then again i like to play in the mud and deep water...


mud water+functional hoodscoop=disaster

 

[grsjax]

Was thinking of the scoop as more of a way to get cold air under the hood rather than as a way of forcing air into the motor. Maybe vents would be a better way to accomplish this.

 

[RustedRanger]

Not to be disagreeable but it's 2". Thats why the bottom of the opening on the '70 and up Formlula Firebird were raised 2" above the hood. It gets the opening above the boundry layer of air that flows over the hood. The boundry layer is the air that "sticks" as it moves over an object. It's not that hard to make your own if you know how or can learn to use fiberglass. Just make a "buck", a shape you want out of something the fiberglass resin will soak into,something like basla wood or cardboard or even some coat hanger and then lay the 'glass over it. Then you can grind the "buck" out and be left with a scoop or any other part you want.