Hood insulation blanket required?
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From: Greer SC
Hood insulation blanket required?
Greetings,
I have a black '78 that I show (and drive hard). I intend to have a air brush mural painted under the hood. Opinion please....do I need to keep the insulation blanket and just remove it for shows? Or can I get by with no blanket. I seldom drive it for any extended period of time....usually just short jaunts around town. I have a black 2000 vert for my daily driver.
da Viking
I have a black '78 that I show (and drive hard). I intend to have a air brush mural painted under the hood. Opinion please....do I need to keep the insulation blanket and just remove it for shows? Or can I get by with no blanket. I seldom drive it for any extended period of time....usually just short jaunts around town. I have a black 2000 vert for my daily driver.
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I've got a ' 77 and kept the blanket on it. We spray painted it Black w/Dupli-Color Vinyl & Fabric Paint 1st. Then had the C-3 Logo air-brushed on it.. Turned out great... 
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can you post pics of the air brush work?
There is another post today about the hood insulation, consensus was it was there mostly as a sound deadener and less of a paint protector as some people thought
There is another post today about the hood insulation, consensus was it was there mostly as a sound deadener and less of a paint protector as some people thought
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From: Greer SC
That is my main worry...paint protection. My mural will be of a Viking that has punched a hole in the hood and you will see his fingers curled around the edges of the hole and him looking in....so it will be quite an extensive mural. That is why I am worried about heat.
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without the blanket is not going to damage the paint on the out side of the hood, but i would put something on the inside to protect the mural from oil or other debris while you're driving it and then you can remove it at shows.
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I used to think it was for noise too..But I have heat checking right above the upper radiator hose(hard to see on hood,but it is there)..no question about it...I have a 78 L-82 with stock GM half blanket....here is blanket...
can post pic of heat checking tomorrow,if necessary...vette hood paint dates to 1987...took vette out of storage in 2002..so it only took less than three years when I noticed it..
can post pic of heat checking tomorrow,if necessary...vette hood paint dates to 1987...took vette out of storage in 2002..so it only took less than three years when I noticed it..
Last edited by rihwoods; Sep 21, 2005 at 01:10 AM.
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Hood Blanket
My 78 SA had the blanket, no problems with the hood paint. My '80 did not come with it, the paint has bubbled and popped off the hood about every 4 years. I have had the car repainted 5 times in the 25 years I have owned the car, replaced the hood one time, but the heat seems to cook the paint every time.
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Originally Posted by nc440mc3
My 78 SA had the blanket, no problems with the hood paint. My '80 did not come with it, the paint has bubbled and popped off the hood about every 4 years. I have had the car repainted 5 times in the 25 years I have owned the car, replaced the hood one time, but the heat seems to cook the paint every time.
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Originally Posted by ruby76
rihwoods, is your radiator hose touching the hood? Kind of looks like it might. So teh checking might actually be rubbing.
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Originally Posted by ruby76
rihwoods, is your radiator hose touching the hood? Kind of looks like it might. So teh checking might actually be rubbing.
The new ones you get need to be trimmed..I think...I'm driving back down to Gloucester in a bit but I'll take a pic of how mine looks and post it. 78 and 79 are pretty darn close...
It'll probably be later on in the afternoon...after I get up..night shift sux.
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[QUOTE=PortDawg
The new ones you get need to be trimmed..I think...I'm driving back down to Gloucester in a bit but I'll take a pic of how mine looks and post it. 78 and 79 are pretty darn close...
It'll probably be later on in the afternoon...after I get up..night shift sux.[/QUOTE]
Thanks...good point about trimming...that could lower it some..I'll look for your pic....
Rich
The new ones you get need to be trimmed..I think...I'm driving back down to Gloucester in a bit but I'll take a pic of how mine looks and post it. 78 and 79 are pretty darn close...
It'll probably be later on in the afternoon...after I get up..night shift sux.[/QUOTE]
Thanks...good point about trimming...that could lower it some..I'll look for your pic....
Rich
