Hood Insulation
After my Ram Air Hood was stolen (see "Watch your Ram air Hoods) I bought an SLP hood for my 1998 Trans Am. The hood and paintjob look great. A key difference that I noted was the fact that there was no Hood insulation underneath the hood like my GM Ram Air Hood had. Should I be pretty concerened about this? Should I buy a separate insulator and get it installed? I saw a WS6 Insulator on sale for eBay, should that work? Thanx for the advice guys.
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Mixedpuppy
1998 TA, mostly stock, SLP hood, ram air plastic intake, K&N Filter, Transgo Shift Kit, Kooks Stainless LT headers with Magna Flow Cats, Borla Exhaust (Medium plate setting), Kenny Brown SFCs, BMR Tower Strut Brace, 17" ROH RT Rims, 9.5 BFG KDWs, SLP Airlid, Smooth bore bellow, 85mm MAF. Nitrous to come. Action figure not included. -
forget that stuff........
of the slp cars, from 91 on up.... the CompTA's, the Firehawks, or the SS's, have insulation under the hood. its a composite hood.....
the only reason GM does it is to make the motor more quiet from the front of the car..... O.E. "frills"...... thats all.
you are muccccccccch better off without the stuff man.
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Ditto what Ken said. My SLP Ram Air HO hood came without insulation, and its been on the car for more than 3 years that way with no problems. I would'nt worry about it.
Ken:
Every once in a while, at least on another board, there are people who will claim the stock hood insulation is there to "put out engine fires"...... supposedly it is designed to melt under high heat, fall on the engine and put out the fire. Sounds sort of far fetched to me. Have you ever heard anything like that????Fred
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Originally posted by Injuneer
Ditto what Ken said. My SLP Ram Air HO hood came without insulation, and its been on the car for more than 3 years that way with no problems. I would'nt worry about it.
Ken:
Every once in a while, at least on another board, there are people who will claim the stock hood insulation is there to "put out engine fires"...... supposedly it is designed to melt under high heat, fall on the engine and put out the fire. Sounds sort of far fetched to me. Have you ever heard anything like that????
no........ never. and if it was an O.E. requirement from GM...then they would have SLP, or MAKE slp do it as part of the tier 1 package........ dont cha think?
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yeah...personally, I like my hood without it. Looks much cleaner...
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Thanks guys.Mixedpuppy
1998 TA, mostly stock, SLP hood, ram air plastic intake, K&N Filter, Transgo Shift Kit, Kooks Stainless LT headers with Magna Flow Cats, Borla Exhaust (Medium plate setting), Kenny Brown SFCs, BMR Tower Strut Brace, 17" ROH RT Rims, 9.5 BFG KDWs, SLP Airlid, Smooth bore bellow, 85mm MAF. Nitrous to come. Action figure not included.Comment
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