FYREANT

I like the fabric liners, but they are difficult to clean in my opinion. I have seen people replace them with mirrors, but that's not quite what I was looking for. Is anyone doing any type of hard or soft plastic replacement? something that can still be painted with designs and possibly clear coated so it can be polished up? thx

Ant

KenHorse

The purpose of the liner is to protect the painted hood from engine compartment heat.

Keep that in mind if replacing the liner material

Larry/car

Just a reminder, car is meant to be driven. Showing a car should be way down the list of things to do. I have shown my car occasionally (twice this summer), I don't go overboard cleaning, really don't care if I win or not. I even have driven my car in the rain.

KenHorse

All my Vettes are daily drivers and get driven in anything but snow. I also do a TON of show and shines (and have won numerous trophies) in my Vettes as well (my C6 had 83K miles on it when I sold it last year).

Showing your car with pride at a show and driving the snot out of it otherwise are not mutually exclusive

FYREANT

I live in florida and do about 15K a year on my car. I daily drive my C7 so it sees a lot of road time, and a LOT of rain. There is a water stain right above where the hood vents are on the liner and it was a real pain to try and clean and i still didnt get the water line out. Im sure it is due to driving in the rain a lot. I would like to change it up something non fabric as a result. I understand what the liners purpose is, but was just inquiring about options

Steve Snake Driver

An expensive option would be to get one of the carbon fiber aftermarket hoods offered by the vendors here. Weapon X comes to mind as does LG. ACS has something in the pipeline also I believe. As I said, not the cheapest option, but you would get a hard surface you could paint if desired.

As for the liner protecting the paint, maybe, maybe not. The ZR-1s have no liner on their c/f hoods and no extra vents to let out heat and their hood paint has never seemed to be a problem.

FYREANT

Not sure if I could justify spending that kinda doh on a hood with not much benefit for me since we already have CF hoods lol

lancekl

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