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Help me decide on what to do with my 69 Ramcharger ductwork

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After looking for several years for a 69 Super Bee, I pulled the trigger on one last fall. I had wanted one with the standard bulge hood, but this one had the Ramcharger option. To get the ductwork to fit of coarse limits the intake choices.
I am parking the original motor in a corner of my garage and having a 470 stroker built for it. The engine builder says he can port a standard Edelbrock Performer to get within 10-12 hp of a RPM. I can make this work buy purchasing a 440 baseplate. So the cost of a intake is $310. + port work $250. + baseplate $378. + K&N oval filter $82. for a total of $1020.

Or I have a brand new discontinued Holley Street Dominator that I could send off to the builder and say screw the Ramcharger stuff. I would run a K&N drop base with filtered lid with this setup like I have on my other cars.

So my question is what would you guys do, and I would imagine I would still have to rivot the top portion of the ductwork to the hood?
 
Can you run the Ramcharger hood with the scoops and just ditch the underhood ductwork so you get the scoop look without the BS with the intake choices? That is probably the route I'd go. Cool look of the Ramcharger scoops but just let the fresh air go under the hood. It can't hurt performance and then you can run whatever you'd like intake wise.
 
Can you run the Ramcharger hood with the scoops and just ditch the underhood ductwork so you get the scoop look without the BS with the intake choices?
Yeah, that is one of my questions. I have never had a car with this style hood before. The car was taken apart when I bought it and I am not certain what all needs to be utilized if I just run s standard air cleaner.
 
Yeah, that is one of my questions. I have never had a car with this style hood before. The car was taken apart when I bought it and I am not certain what all needs to be utilized if I just run s standard air cleaner.
i used a low profile weiand intake my 383 roadrunner last year no clearence problems at all with all airgrabber parts connected.
 
Yea I am saying run it without the orange duct work shown in the pic below. That way you can get the scoop look outside without dealing with the connection point underhood and basically run whatever intake you want providing it fits under the hood like any other car at that point. The scoops would still funnel fresh air under the hood, just not directly to the intake. Original no, but looks factor outside the car would be alot cooler than the bulge hood in my opinion, and if its a modified engine then originality goes out the window anyway. If you are building an engine that needs more power then an aftermarket low rise intake will give you that fits the stock airbox, then its past originality anyway in my opinion. Just some **** to think about.

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I run the Performer RPM on my 383 with the bulge hood. The only reason I use a drop base is because I'm using the Edelbrock heat insulating carb gasket. I'm running a reproduction unsilnced air cleaner with the drop base from Mancini.

Apart from the suggestion above, I would be willing to trade my bulge hood for your Ramcharger setup!
 
The edlebrock CH4b intake and eddy carb you can still use the ram charger system.......

As mentioned above the safe route is no duct work and you get the look and cooling aspects.....
 
i used a low profile weiand intake my 383 roadrunner last year no clearence problems at all with all airgrabber parts connected.
Problem with that is we are going for 550 hp/550 ft. lbs. Even the Weiand would be a major restriction.
 
The edlebrock CH4b intake and eddy carb you can still use the ram charger system.......

As mentioned above the safe route is no duct work and you get the look and cooling aspects.....
A ch4b is for a rb engine. The dp4b is for the b engines and hasen't been produced for awhile. Cant seem to find a nice one.... Carb will be a 850 or 950 Quick Fuel.
 
Apart from the suggestion above, I would be willing to trade my bulge hood for your Ramcharger setup!
Lol. You aren't the first person to mention that.
 
Love that hood man. I vote on running it without the ductwork! It looks so badass on these cars.
 
So this is what I trying to understand. Wouldn't I have to rivet these 2 pieces to the underside of the hood in order to kind of finish off the 2 holes in the hood? And if so, I should still be able to get an air cleaner like this to fit up in between them?

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A ch4b is for a rb engine. The dp4b is for the b engines and hasen't been produced for awhile. Cant seem to find a nice one.... Carb will be a 850 or 950 Quick Fuel.
Sorry...I only think in RB:D

Neither has the CH4b been produced in eons but they can be found.......

What your choosing to use I dont think the duct work can be used......
 
Put the ram charger hood in the corner with the original engine. Put a fiberglass six pack hood on the car.
 
Yea once you put the scoops on the light won't show through the hood and you wont barely notice the squares in the underside like you do now. Let the engine get cool air from the scoops and run it! Other than the two square air holes, most of those other holes are in all hoods anyway for the underhood insulation so it won't look much different. I prefer a steel hood with the hinges and latch over a fiberglass hood but that is me. I don't trust the fiberglass hoods without hood pins and I wouldn't wanna drill for the front pins in the core area.
 
Put the ram charger hood in the corner with the original engine. Put a fiberglass six pack hood on the car.
I really do like that look also, but am for sure going to use the hood I have.
 
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You have about 3/4”-1” of HOOD clearance with a 383 and a 383 airgrabber air cleaner. Going to a 440 airgrabber air cleaner will buy you another 3/4” HOOD clearance. That’s the first part I’d be worried about.
Then if you leave the seal off the center portion of the duct work you may be able to buy another 3/4”
Total stack height first then the airgrabber.
 
Run the scoops only and send me your entire airbox set up, I'll take good care of it! :D

Just be sure to paint the inside of the scoops body colour.
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Run the scoops only and send me your entire airbox set up, I'll take good care of it! :D
Don't you have enough spares yet, lol. Seems like you are buying every one that comes up for sale.
 
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