Rallye Hood

[DLMc]

Thinking of adding this 73 rallye hood to my 74. I know it's not correct for my 74 and might catch some flack for it but I am running a Ed rpm air gap on a 360 and it fits barely without a carb spacer. I tried a 1/2" and it rubs the insulation. A one inch would be ideal to balance out the flow. some people cut out 1" in the divider on the intake. I thought about a low profile air cleaner but have run into clearance issues with the electric choke on some of them. Anyway I love the look of these hoods and think is adds to the body lines.

 

[HawkRod]

Thinking of adding this 73 rallye hood to my 74. I know it's not correct for my 74 and might catch some flack for it but I am running a Ed rpm air gap on a 360 and it fits barely without a carb spacer. I tried a 1/2" and it rubs the insulation. A one inch would be ideal to balance out the flow. some people cut out 1" in the divider on the intake. I thought about a low profile air cleaner but have run into clearance issues with the electric choke on some of them. Anyway I love the look of these hoods and think is adds to the body lines.

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Few people will know the difference, and those that do will likely think it's cool. Those that want to nitpick about it being incorrect for the year:

It's your car - do what makes you happy!

 

[PurpleBeeper]

Good move. I like the hood

 

[#41]

For what it's worth, my 74 Rallye which was built in January (mid production) came from the factory with a 73 hood. How that happened... who knows. The car was still in original paint and the hood had the 1974 440 emissions decal on it. In the 25 years I owned it, only one person every commented on it. Besides, seeing that your car did not come with a Rallye hood to start with, I don't think anyone will care.... even if they notice.

 

[Hilljack68]

Even if they gripe about it, it's YOUR car. I think it would look cool. By the way, I love those rims!

 

[YY1]

"Sport hoods" are almost always better than flat hoods, whether they came on the car or not.

 

[DLMc]

Even if they gripe about it, it's YOUR car. I think it would look cool. By the way, I love those rims!

They a mirada wheels. I think they fit the period.

 

[WileE]

That's your car ? Wow, that's a beauty ! Just do what YOU like, the heck with anyone else. Save the original hood safely. The rallye hood will look cool !

 

[1968rt]

Go for it!!

 

[6PKRTSE]

I wonder how one of those hoods would look adding an air grabber?

 

[1968rt]

I bought a 71 R/T hood thats going on my 72 Rallye. Its yours ,do what you like.

 

[Runcharger]

Big improvement. I would do the same. I like the Mirada wheels as well.

 

[Coelacanth]

My buddy has a '71 Charger that was plain vanilla originally. He added the bulge hood, R/T doors and Go Wing before having it freshly painted. It looks much better than the plain vanilla body style. Who gives a crap if it's not original anymore?

 

[icetech]

Thinking of adding this 73 rallye hood to my 74. I know it's not correct for my 74 and might catch some flack for it but I am running a Ed rpm air gap on a 360 and it fits barely without a carb spacer. I tried a 1/2" and it rubs the insulation. A one inch would be ideal to balance out the flow. some people cut out 1" in the divider on the intake. I thought about a low profile air cleaner but have run into clearance issues with the electric choke on some of them. Anyway I love the look of these hoods and think is adds to the body lines.

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Use the hood.... It's your car, do what you like.. and pretty much no one will ever know it doesn't belong.. and it doesn't matter if they do.

 

[QuickBpBp]

I wonder how one of those hoods would look adding an air grabber?

That's probably what I would do. As far as the OP's question they did come factory with a bulge hood and again many will not notice the vents plus who cares if they did. I have a mint 72 Decklid on my '74 RR just because I could not find a nice 73-4 decklid when it went in for paint. Do I care if anyone notices it has the small nice looking lock? NOPE.

 

[YY1]

Sport hoods do wonders for cars originally equipped with flat hoods-

 

[R413]

For what it's worth, my 74 Rallye which was built in January (mid production) came from the factory with a 73 hood. How that happened... who knows. The car was still in original paint and the hood had the 1974 440 emissions decal on it. In the 25 years I owned it, only one person every commented on it. Besides, seeing that your car did not come with a Rallye hood to start with, I don't think anyone will care.... even if they notice.

The different emissions decal lends towards the hood being swapped when new on the lot or nearly new when they would be on the wrecking yard.

Ever work at a car dealership and see the swapping that happens to sell a car? Lots of it went on. I got to do a good amount of it.

 

[YY1]

The OP is saying there's a 74 emissions decal on a 73 style hood on his 74 car.

NOT that's it's different.

 

[#41]

The different emissions decal lends towards the hood being swapped when new on the lot or nearly new when they would be on the wrecking yard.

Ever work at a car dealership and see the swapping that happens to sell a car? Lots of it went on. I got to do a good amount of it.

Or much more likely, the correct 74 emissions decal on 73 hood would indicate the 73 hood was installed on the 74 at the factory, and the 74 decal was slapped on there. Is it more believable that a 73 hood of the exact same color was swapped out by someone for the original 74 hood, who then also troubled themselves to installed a correct 74 emissions decal on the 73 hood? Not by a long shot.

Understand that I got the car when it was only 14 years old and it was unmolested and never wrecked. Everything including the hood was in original paint (I stripped and repainted the car). With 99% certainty, it was built with a 73 hood from old inventory. It's not beyond reason that they were using up everything they could as the 3rd gen body style Charger and Rallye were coming to a close that year. The assembly line was not the perfect machine that the numbers worshippers think it was.

At any rate, it's not my cross to bear. I don't own the car anymore.

 

[YY1]

I will say...there was time period when those emissions decals were first reproduced, and were all the rage.

Around 1990.

People were putting those $10 decals for a 340 on 318 cars and trying to pass them off to people who didn't understand VIN engine codes.