I'm planning on running the lid mod with an electric water pump and an aftermarket SS hood.

Any unusual fitment problems? Is this possible?

Pics if possible please

 

have you tried a test fit it yet? I have a 4 inch cowl so a little trimming on the underside of the hood and Im fine. Not sure about the SS hood tho, but if people are getting stock hoods to fit i think you have a pretty good shot at it.

Just dont use the plastic Rad cover and you will have a extra 2 inches of clearence.

 

If you need to hit me up when I get back and you can look at it in person to see everything.

This is my setup..







Why you converting over?

 

I was worried about the radiator hitting the electric water pump.

And Merv, every few HP counts

 

you are describing exactly the setup ive got. I have a CSR water pump. I had to cut the fan shroud quite a bit but it was nothing difficult.

here is my writeup
http://blog.joeldevriendt.com/?p=41

plenty of pictures there, but none that show the trimming i had to do. I think my pump is one of the shallower ones. I can almost say for certain you would run into problems if your pump was a meziere HD.

 

I haven't got the pump yet. One of my next purchases

 

alright well to answer your question then, if you look at the "rim" of the passenger side fan shroud i had to cut a section of that pretty much completely out. Most people have to trim a bit there for a water pump anyway, but mine never needed it until i laid the radiator back for the lid.

 

Thanks. Since you got it to fit, I'm more motivated to get it now

 

I have a Glasstek hood and I run the ls1 radiator support and lid, no cutting to the core support required, just bolt it up like normal and I just cut a little on the underside of the cowl. I dont think a SS hood you can run it without cutting up the radiator support. I have pictures in the link in my sig if you want to go the cowl hood route.