Glass hood and 5.0L swap

i don't think you would have anything to worry about, any car will have the heat "waves" you've seen, the only thing i can really suggest is to try an electric fan to help cool the engine better and also help push some of the excess heat out of the engine compartment, but if you are really worried about go ahead and have the headers jet-hot coated, i would recommend not using any of the header wraps though, as they will cause the headers to rust away from the inside out

I wouldn't worry about the heat waves... Unless you have some extraordinary heat producing part near the hood you have the same situation as every other car on the road. I don't recall ever seeing engine heat cause problems with a fiberglass hood... its certainly never effected my cowl hood. An engine fire would be a different story....

FastLane68 said:

After I put in a 5.0L swap motor I also added a Shelby clone 'glass hood. I'm getting ready to paint the car and I can see the heat rising thru the hood. Is this likely to damage my paint? I've tried ugly looking hood insulation but is there a better looking way of keeping the heat from the engine and headers from baking my hood? Would thermal coating the headers be sufficient? Do I need some metal heat shields as well and where would I put them?

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I am doing the same swap, 5.0L and Shelby style hood. I asked the guy who is going to sell me the hood and he said that short of a fire, nothing will affect the paint. hope that helps. I am going to jet-hot coat my shorty headers to keep the heat off my feet, but that should also help to cut down on engine bay heat.

Side note: Did you have to do a lot of work to get the hood to fit right?