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[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Dave, do you know of any plans to make that body style mustang avaliable with the hood shaker from a couple years ago an option as well??

From what I have seen and read so far, there is not a plan to have a factory stock Mustang with a shaker hood. The standard V-6 doesn't need it, and the GT doesn't come with a factory Ram Air, Shaker, or similar intake option (but it does have a nice beefy bulge in the hood to fit over the V-8). But you can get them from several after-market sources, either just for looks, or if you want to pull the huge intake ducts out of a GT and replace them with a shorter flow path, or if you want to stick a blower on the block and need the extra room. You can get either straight-forward hood scoops, or a real shaker two-piece set up with a big hole in the actual hood. There are also a lot of after-market builders that have them as standard equipment on their re-builds (e.g. I think that both the Roush Mustang GT and Chip Foose Mustang GT have them).

The hood vents on the Cobra GT500KR are actually designed to get air out from under the hood, not pump air in like a hood scoop. The acceleration is fast enough, and the front air dam effects are strong enough at speed, that the car has a considerable pressure build up under the hood. The hood vents are there to dump the pressure out the top of the hood so that the hood does not blow off, similar in function to the hood vents on the Ford GT. Oh yeah, and they look cool.

And now back to our regularly scheduled episode of Car Talk...

-dave

[edit]If I remember correctly, the last factory option Mustang with a shaker hood was the 2003-2004 Mach 1 special edition. They are no longer available.[/edit]