Re: cooked hood

[Tony Martie <tony@domain.elided>]

original message:
1)  My Graduate doesn't have an underhood heat shield.  This is the car 
that's
getting ready to be painted, and the paint on the hood is totally shot 
- dead.
I have never seen a hood pad offered, and there are decals under the 
hood as
if they are not supposed to be covered up.  Were they simply designed 
without
heat shields?  Will my new paint cook like the old paint did?  If so, 
has
anyone fit a heat shield to their Spider?

Hi Paul,
 I would have to say that your hood was painted poorly, or most likely 
not properly prepped (which is 90% of a good paint job).
I have a black Spider in Dallas with no under hood insulation and a 
header.  In other words it gets cooked from both sides.  The hood looks 
no worse for wear than the rest of the paint, which is all about eight 
years old.

Actually, it's my second black Spider, neither of which had/have 
under-hood insulation.

What's a "Quadrifoglio front spider"?


Tony Martie
TM PhotoDesign
http://tmpd.net
phone  469.233.TMPD  (8673)
fax         214.328.0882
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