wicked93gs wrote:A hood scoop will indeed be the best way to do it(which is after all the reason the SVO had one). However...keep in mind that for proper ducting you will need a rubber seal that seals to the top flange of the IC. I very much doubt you will be able to effectively duct the air from the front of the car, I doubt there is enough room between the IC and the hood to make an effective hat for the intercooler. It will be far easier with a hood scoop...
In fact there's more than enough room, especially if you use the late (dipped center) valve cover and the shorter TC upper intake. Mock it up and take some measurements-- you'll see, and the air in front of the car has much higher pressure than the air on top of the hood. Why cut up your hood? There is no need. It wasn't just the little spoilers on the fronts of the vents that drew air up through them; the front of the hood is already a low-pressure area because of the angle between it and the grille. Air hits the grille and cannot maintain laminar flow at the front of the hood, creating a low-pressure bubble, plus the air coming in through the grille causes a higher pressure under the hood than over it. The other function of the Coosie hood vents is to negate front end lift caused by this. The over-the-hood air pressure increases as you move back, becoming neutral in the middle (about where you'd have your hood scoop), and then becoming high-pressure as it piles up at the base of the windshield. The false firewall seals this air into the HVAC system, both providing an underway pressure feed for the cabin vents, and also preventing engine fumes from reaching the inside. A cowl vent will draw substantial air over an IC core if you broach this, but now you are negating the pressure differential between the front of the car and the engine room, reducing your flow through the radiator.
None of thhis is a huge deal or anything, but that's how the air flows at the front of the car. I can only believe that running a simple bit of ducting from the headlight openings as Ed suggested, connected to something fabbed from sheet aluminum over the core, wouldn't be far easier and more effective than cutting a hood scoop.