thru-hood cowl intake

Anyone ever replaced the rubber flex tube by essentially placing an air filter on-top of the throttle body like a carb setup? To do so given space limitations would probably require a hole in the hood and a raised cowl intake type hood similar to a hot rod from the good ol days. I'm asking because i opened the hood yesterday and my rubber intake line had split due to heat, time, contact with oil, you name it. Split wide open at the TB. So i either go scrounge the JY this week or i go and try to come up with fabbing a way to make the RENIX mount into a 3 or 4 inch clamp on adapter. I dont want to cross deep water crossings, and with a well designed cowl setup, rain really shouldnt be an issue.

Give these guys a look:
http://vesquared.com/ramflo/customers.htm

I have used Lynx RamFlo for decades.

at one time I made a similar setup but it was under the hood and went to a home made snorkel.

do you have weight pulling the rubber piece down? like a cone filter just hanging from the rubber piece alone? I had that problem and solved it by adding a bracket for the cone filter to sit on.

o-gauge-steamer said:

Give these guys a look:
http://vesquared.com/ramflo/customers.htm

I have used Lynx RamFlo for decades.

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I miss my side-draft carbs on my old MGB. Thats rather what inspired me.
There was some weight on the hose, but its over now and my mind has already gone in this direction which means things will never be the same.

Could make your own shaker hood..