Why dont you get a pice of foam like picture 1....The Foam forces the air box to breath from the hole in the hood.
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Cut a hole in the side of your hood and put a wire mesh over it similar to AEV and if you really want to you can put a small scoop out there.

I have no Idea how much cooler the air into my intake is but it is defiantely better than it was stock and I have not lowered the air intake which would have made water an issue....Just food for thought. O and if your in CO I would be willing to sell you a used but very nice hood.

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Another good idea.
Just see if you can buy the AEV trim piece that comes with the snorke.
Cut the hood.
Install the foam.
Build a mesh screen that will fit behind the trim piece and you'll be done.

I have their snorkle so I could take it off and show you what it would look like on a stock hood.

The only problem is that you might need a small drain hole in the bottom of the intake. During heavy rains I could see water getting in there. Maybe not though.
Have you ever seen that Brent

 

I totally like the foam side inlet idea.

 

Does anyone have the part # for the foam piece?

 

Cutting out a section of the stock steel hood in a way that would emulate the AEV piece would likely result in some structural issues.

On the other hand, installing a small scoop (ala J8) in the vicinity of the air box would 1) allow you the flexibility to cut in a non-structual area of the hood, 2) provide some avenue for escape of hot under hood air (assuming scoop is not directly tied to air box), and 3) eliminate the potential for rain water, etc., to find its way into the airbox (again, assuming it's not directly tied in).

Just food for thought. I've seen some small scoops used in marine applications that would look nicer than the J8 crude-looking set-up. I'd love to see someone try this so I can decide if I want to follow my own suggestion!

 

Well Folks-- update time. Been busier than a flea in a pet shop But WAS able to take the Jeep on a 200 mile trek......... a usual trek I go quite often to see some family.

DEFINTE improvement ON THE HIGHWAY. Not much noticible difference off the line but at speed/already crusing and hitting the gas takes a lot LESS pedal, also had a significant decrease in the OD shifting in/out.....

I have had a rack installed & ever since then I've seen my milage drop about 1.5 MPG's......but not this time with this set up ((NOT hand calculated yet...just going off the Jeep's computer)) the rig is back to behaving like she should, not so sluggish and more ummmmph when I go to pass with a lot less throttle

Sooooooooooo, I'd say the theory works...... now just time (if I can find some blessed time) to improve upon d' design and track down some better parts

 

Just food for thought. I've seen some small scoops used in marine applications that would look nicer than the J8 crude-looking set-up. I'd love to see someone try this so I can decide if I want to follow my own suggestion! [/QUOTE]

Hope that someone does this so I can make up my mind on the intake issue.

 

That's exactly what the new military Jeep J8 is doing. All you would have to do is replace the military scoop with one that's asthetically pleasing, add an up-tube from the airbox to the scoop and viola.

 

Hello! Can one say Shaker?????

http://www.moparmusclemagazine.com/t...ood/index.html

 

LOL! I'd LOVE one but the wife already relegated me to the couch for a weeek when I drilled 8 holes into the jeep for the roof rack...Cant imagine how long I'd be living room 'campin' if I tore a hole in the hood THAT big!!!!!