Safe To Remove Underhood Lining?
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Safe To Remove Underhood Lining?
I am planning to detail my engine bay in the spring and wanted to know if it was safe to remove the lining on the underside of the hood? Mine is pretty shabby looking. I assume the lining is to suppress heat/noise?
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I believe it's to help squelch an underhood fire or at least delay its spread, so I guess the danger in removing it would be as minimal as you think the risk of needing an extra few moments to get out of a burning car is.
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Maybe years of hydrocarbons. Maybe I have its use wrong.
Midnight in a Perfect World on Amazon or order anywhere. The first book in a quartet chronicling the rise of a man from angry criminal to philanthropist. Midnight... is a distopic noirish novel featuring 'Duchess', a modified 1990 Subaru Legacy wagon.
I got rid of mine this summer before WCSS10...haven't missed it yet...
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It's mostly sound damping, and really doesn't do much for heat.
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But, do you live in Yuma, Arizona..? hehe, if one were to have this removed AND live in a state where it's common to see 100F'+ temps.. maybe that heat AND engine heat are apt to make it peel/fade? I know many a Chrysler product needed nothing but regualr sunlight to shed it's clearcoat like a snake skin on body parts not affected by engine heat.Buffman wrote:my wife's white cavalier is as white as it was. It came with no hood insulation.
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I say sound insulation. I have seen the matting installed from factory(on an LS). Also not installed in the cheaper models (on an L) which was missing various parts of insulation that was there to suppress sound. I have owned both. Both were NA wagons. And my 91 turbo has this insulation as well. But for 91 the turbos had all the options for the legacy's other then the height adjustable suspension.