[Joshinator99]

Originally Posted by Nmolina9239

Gents,

I throw the blower back on my car and took some pictures with playdough (yes I have some at home, my gf is a teacher).

I also took some measurements using a micrometer as shown. This is on my 2018 SS with the stock hood (including the felt protector underneath) as well as the cradle lowering spacers as I posted pictures of before.

Long story short, she appears to be a tight squeeze. I had spoken to Grant at TooHighPsi a while back and he mentioned that even their low profile plates are 8/10ths of an inch thick. Looks like machining the intake runners is the way to go unless I'm missing something.

Hope this helps.

-Norm

Nice work Norm! Very helpful!

It appears that this confirms spacers are not needed on an SS. I know you’re running them, but the spacers are 0.375” if I’m not mistaken. So even the tightest spot was 0.631” with the spacers installed…so without the spacers you’d still have nearly 0.300”. And that’s with the hood liner too. Just my thoughts.

Edit: Also, I agree on the runners needing to be machined. They were obviously designed to accept port injectors since the bosses are cast in. And since the runners can be easily separated and shipped out for machining… no brainer. Adding plates would be crazy IMO.