Underhood Insulation

SRT Handz · May 21, 2005

Can you remove the bloack underhoof insulation or will if affect anything. How do u go about getting it off?

4.6_02_Black_GT · May 21, 2005

Under hood instulation serves two purpose ...number one is to keep the heat in the engine bay in cold climinates its necessary to help keep engine come up to temperature quicker(helps with emissions). number 2 is kinda weak..some have claimed it also will assist in case of fire the blanket will fall onto the engine and possibily snuff the fire...

Main reason again is to shorten the time the engine takes to get up to temparture..

oh yea....if you remove it you will have increase engine noise too.

Ryan02Stang · May 21, 2005

I took mine off. No problems

SRT Handz · May 21, 2005

will it come off easy or is there **** under it that i will have to scrape and clean off?

MaxxMundo · May 21, 2005

It comes off pretty easy. Just pull the plugs out. It'll fall off. There isn't any glue or anything attaching it to the hood. The under-side of my hood was unpainted down the middle, though.

RedBullitt · May 22, 2005

just push pin kinda things, flat head screw driver will take care of them.

Black Stang 97 · May 22, 2005

i heard its also so the paint on the hood wont mess up as fast because of exterior heat plus the engine heat, i dunno, i heard that some where.

ONZZ · May 22, 2005

Can you buy a new one?

ACSPONY · May 22, 2005

Yep, 50resto has them

GT-03 · May 23, 2005

Black Stang 97 said:
i heard its also so the paint on the hood wont mess up as fast because of exterior heat plus the engine heat, i dunno, i heard that some where.

That is what I have always heard for its purpose. It keep the engine heat from cooking the paint on the hood.

BooWFO · May 23, 2005

It will fry your paint. Unless you want o repaint every couple of years leave it on it's not that much weight.

jstreet0204 · May 23, 2005

BooWFO said:
It will fry your paint. Unless you want o repaint every couple of years leave it on it's not that much weight.

Hmm, if that were the case, I would think it would effect the paint on the inner fender wells. Mine are still shiney as new after six years. Even up close to the headers.

VividDreams · May 24, 2005

as stated earlier, one of the main reasons is if there is a fire the platsic clips will melt and it will fall onto the engine acting as a blanket to help snuff out the fire.

myponyrocks · May 25, 2005

VividDreams said:
as stated earlier, one of the main reasons is if there is a fire the platsic clips will melt and it will fall onto the engine acting as a blanket to help snuff out the fire.

by the time the plastic melts all the way (because it will gum up at first and actually hold the blanket on) the engine components are dead.

shonoff · May 25, 2005

I have read in somewhere that 90% of the reason they are there is for engine noise reduction.Ive had mine off for a couple years with no paint problems.

300bhp/ton · May 25, 2005

does it really matter what its designed for.

The question is why bother taking it off??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

If its for weight reduction then your are better off just going to the toilet before you get in the car. As it will make NO absolutly NO difference whats so ever to how your cars performance capability.

shonoff · May 25, 2005

I took mine off because it was ripped and coming apart and looked like $hit.

RedLine01 · May 25, 2005

300bhp/ton said:
If its for weight reduction then your are better off just going to the toilet before you get in the car. As it will make NO absolutly NO difference whats so ever to how your cars performance capability.

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