Underhood Insulation

[SRT Handz]

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]

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]

I took mine off. No problems

 

[SRT Handz]

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

 

[MaxxMundo]

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]

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

 

[Black Stang 97]

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]

Can you buy a new one?

 

[ACSPONY]

Yep, 50resto has them

 

[GT-03]

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]

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

 

[jstreet0204]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[RedLine01]

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.

Now thats funny