Thread: Shaker Hood Grating?

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Way off thread and straight out of the useless information department but down in this part of the world a "shaker" hood is what was on the old Aussie Ford classic,a GTHO Falcon also known as a "Shaker" due to the fact that when the engine was revved the scoop would move or "shake".The car was made in the early 70's ran a hot 351 cleveland and,so i am told,was the fastest four door production car at that time.

Cheers KIWI

In all honesty, I would be seriously concerned about comming out of the club one night and finding the carbs and scoop gone. From personal experience it's not a lot of fun to have a car and be somewhere that you feel you need to go out and look at it every 5 minuets.

Also the set up your talking about is not real good on rainy nights.

The setup I used to run was much lower. THe braces you see on the front of the air cleaner not only stabilized the scoop at high speed, but the 1/4 X20 screws that hold the scoop to the front braces were philips head and double nutted on the bottom (which you couldn't get to with the hood closed).

MY solution would be to find a hood scoop that will cover the entire assembly to keep for those nights you are working or when you have to drive it when the weathers not so great, and run without a hood when you want to show off.

As you can see my set up only had the scoop exposed when the hood was closed, and was a lot shorter than what your talking about.

Wow, another II. Nice one!

I may have to rig some sort of locking mechanism, depending on how far the carbs are exposed. Worst case, you're right; I have the spare hood and I can just throw an el cheapo snorkel on it. It wouldn't be nearly as cool, though.

Keep everything stock lookings........Yeah, not cool at all....

Make a balanced .040 over 351W look stock and paint the edelbrock intake and aluminum heads stock ford blue and port a set of stock manifolds. Even put a 302 decal on the air cleaner. Nobody from the outside will be able to see the 4 speed (top loader) or the posi in the 8" housing. .......


Wanna Race

> Yes, I love the sleeper mode, hahaha.

It has its place but this is not it. This heap is my first hot rod, and I want to make the fact that it IS a hot rod audaciously obvious. I want to roll through a parking lot at closing time and get equal numbers of thumbs-ups and middle fingers from guys in tricolor Hondas. I want my cutouts to drown out their subwoofers. I want my chipped-and-downpiped, spoon-chested-mama's-boy, neon-undercarriage Hilfi-gangsta contemporaries to not even CONSIDER street racing me. I want dual quads towering from the hood and flames shooting out the tailpipes. I want to rule by fear.

Originally posted by Was_II
> Yes, I love the sleeper mode, hahaha.

It has its place but this is not it. This heap is my first hot rod, and I want to make the fact that it IS a hot rod audaciously obvious. I want to roll through a parking lot at closing time and get equal numbers of thumbs-ups and middle fingers from guys in tricolor Hondas. I want my cutouts to drown out their subwoofers. I want my chipped-and-downpiped, spoon-chested-mama's-boy, neon-undercarriage Hilfi-gangsta contemporaries to not even CONSIDER street racing me. I want dual quads towering from the hood and flames shooting out the tailpipes. I want to rule by fear.

then you need a 6-71 blower sticking through that hood instead of that tunnel ram Was_II. i used to run blowers on the st and i used a snap on cover to cover up the carbs. and blower when it rained, but that wouldnt help with the stealing part. looks like to me you gonna have to cover the carbs with some kind of scoop.

looks like to me you gonna have to cover the carbs with some kind of scoop.

I have a Hilborn-style scoop to stick on top; I like MikeP's idea of fabbing some kind of hold-down bars to bolt the scoop to the block or manifold beneath the hood. If I just make it enough of a PITA to remove with the hood closed it will probably deter most evildoers. The alarm will help as well, I'm sure.

A 6:71 is in the works but will have to wait; that's Phase IV. This is only Phase II. Phase III will be a rebuild with a 347 stroker kit -- my big purchase for 2005. That, and the tailpipe flamethrowers.

The Tailpipe Flamethrowers would be a good name for a band.

Quick update:

Brainstorming the other night about the hood grating and methods of locking down the carbs / scoop, came the idea to close the hole with a few strands of barbed wire, tack-welded to the underside of the hood. That would be in keeping with the Rat Rod aesthetic and would sure as hell keep ill-intentioned hands off the carb studs. . ..

Just hook a capasitor up to the thing a real big 1 like they use fer the boom boom.KkKKKerZZap and that sets the alarm off and they run!!!!or get some specialty bolts with a funny head on them like square drive or sumthin so it takes 2 flat head screw driversa hex wrench and a square drive to get it off!!! lock tight is good stuff too!!