I have a oem style carbon fiber hood from VIS and my stock hood didnt come with one of these hood mats? do they quite down the engine bay? and I was wondering if I should or can run one on my carbon fiber hood?
i have been thinking about this too. thinking maybe dynomat or soemthing...
I'm talking about the stock hood mat thing that came on some cavaliers stock hood they are held on with plastic retainers just like the toyota trunk carpet.
thats what EvoFire is talking about man, dynomat would be a good replacement compared to the oem padding that goes up under the stock hoods
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haha ok thanks guys well how would dynomat hold up under high engine heat??? and could someone let me know if the mat will work with my carbon hood? I was thinking dynomat then putting the mat or the dynomat
jdm cav9 wrote:haha ok thanks guys well how would dynomat hold up under high engine heat??? and could someone let me know if the mat will work with my carbon hood? I was thinking dynomat then putting the mat or the dynomat
it is a derivative of roofing tar so it should hold up fine. people have done it int he past with no issues
I believe Dynamat make a specific type of sound deadener for engine bays.
The hood mats are ugly from the factory. i removed mine and saw no change in noise, heat or anything.
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huh well x that idea, I thought it would help with heat and sound if not no point then I guess.
Rich Grayo Jr. wrote:blucavvy wrote:Zs Z wrote:Screaming for Mercy!! wrote:The hood mats are ugly from the factory. i removed mine and saw no change in noise, heat or anything.
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um.. adding a bunch of heavy ass dynamat onto a carbon fiber hood kind of defeats the purpose, doesnt it?
idk about other brands but both my VIS hoods have the locations molded into them for the stock liner pin locations... one would only need to drill and attach to get it to work. drill into ur 500 dollar carbon fiber hood at ur own risk though. personally... i dont see how its worth it.
I've never really "hated" the look of stock hood protectors. If cleaned up and spray-dyed back to pure black, I bet it would look halfway decent under there.
the shop thats redoing my carbon hood clear coat and paint sprayed this on the underside and turned out pretty dam good looking, here's high temp protector/insulator spray
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That actually doesn't look bad. Any more info on the spray they used?
I believe the stock mat is suppose to protect the hood from heat. But I wouldn't worry to much.
