Hot hood...
 

As if it wasn't worse before, the new manifold makes my hood soooo hot its crazy. Today, in the rain, I could see a lot of steam coming up as the rain would fall near the area of my manifold. Is it safe to have the hood this hot with the ramhorn mani underneath it?

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It might not hurt to wrap the manifold with some heat wrap, and then put a reflective heat shield on the hood. At the very least, it will save your paint come summer time...

Craig

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What type of material should I use for the heat shield?

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aluminum.. get a peice bent.. and wrap your manifold with that tape ---- they sell.

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if you let it keep getting hot you'll have a custom bubble paint job :P

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Ahahaha :-X Sorry this has nothing to do with the topic, I just can't stop laughing at Murdoc's avatar.

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hahaha, glad I'm bringing smiles to the HMT community. :D

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How exactly did you get yourself into that position? ??? I thought it was some dude from a movie or something

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Do you really wanna know? :P


Well actually the night before I just fixed my digital camera, broken LCD, and a replacement was $170 :o But don't worry, I didn't pay that much, that's why it took 3 months before I got it going again. Well I just got out the shower and decided to take a pic for you guys. :-*

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Haha I did too. Almost looked like the Incredible Hulk :-X How did you create such madness Murdoc? A leaf blower?

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lol.

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haha you guys are funny. no leaf blower involved here :P Just good ole natural gravity ;)

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so you were head banging huh.

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i didnt know you where black.

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he's not black you goon, he is more white than micheal jackson.

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haha head banging... no not really, held the camera with the back to the floor, head face camera and let gravity do it's thing ;)

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I didn't know you were greek :P

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and my hair gets like that outta the shower kinda anyways, it's almost a foot long. Maybe I'll take a pic when I go shower

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Kain I didn't know you were 40...



Oh yeah, he's not black either :P

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who murdoc, cus there are some black greek chicks.

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hahaha... I am black, the other OG black guy on the site (blackdragon) well I guess I'm just a really dark cambodian, but that is black. Just like they say, what do you call a black cambodian? Khmnigga. Get it? Khmer=cambodia nigga=well you know :P

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i dont get it.

you forgot da-max and some other black dudes on here.

or are you favoriteist?sp???

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we are one in the same baby... come over to my netherland ranch, I don't bite.... well yeah I do :P




Kain, that's why I but OG, blackdragon is OG

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friend of a friend with an h22 g2 teg built his own sidewinder like manifold. his upper rad hose caught on fire, as did his alternator. hood caught on fire eventually. so he went carbon fiber and cut a huge hole out of it.

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ok your paint is gonna ---- up from the heat. it's gonna get very small about 1/4" long and a couple hairs thick cracks. it happened to my hood a few months after i installed my header. especialy if your car doesn't have the insulator on the inside of the hood.

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You should really feel how hot it's getting. My hood gets kinda hot more like very warm. It's just enough to steam at a stop light. It's been this way for almost 2 years, no bubbling or cracks.

The insulation on the hood sounds like a good idea. Just get some of that stick on shinny stuff. It should be at any parts store. If that doesn't fix it then get some of that mani wrap. That wrap looks like crap in my opinion though.