I have the cowl hood. To me its more intimidating and meaner looking than the SS hood. But to each his own. Me I'd prefer not to make it look like something it isn't. I raced (killed) what I thought was a Steeda mustang only to find out it was a V-6 with all the Steeda appreance mods. Kinda ticked me off that I wasted my gas on a V-6.