OK here's the deal- i bought a Warbird hood from Roger at US Exotics, whom say that he casts the lower hood structure directly from a Pontiac WS6 hood. So I buy me a factory WS6 CAI for the car. Well long story short- the intake is too tall and the hood won't shut. If I take out the filter it will close, but it is tight! So I put some lithium greaseon the gasket to see how it was lining up underneath, thinking maybe it was too far back or otherwise misaligned...it is dead centered- just too tall.

Well I start wondering if the WS6 had a different radiator cover that let it sit lower....or anyone else have this problem. I need to get this worked out by tomorrow at noon or the ole moroso is going back in.

Any suggestions??

 

Could be the radiator cover or the bottom of the airbox; I honestly only know what mine looks like. There are pics on my cardomain website in my profile if those would help.

 

after seeing yours I guess i am going to have to remove the rubber gasket from mine...A guy on another board said his wouldn't fit either with the factory gasket in place either.

 

I have my gasket glued to the hood cleaner looking that way... but there still is a gasket there...

 

do you have a pic of that?

 

I can e-mail you one probably... but basically I just glued it to the hood instead of the airbox... but I used some other weatherstripping I had laying around instead of the factory piece too.

I did that when I de-baffled the hood, and made it a straight-shot setup instead of having the rain-guard.

 

"but I used some other weatherstripping I had laying around"

This is what I was thinking about doing- so a Pic would be great!

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