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Under Hood Insulation Pad?

TimS

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I noticed that it doesn't appear that my bare bones 69 Roadrunner Coupe ever had an under hood insulation pad. Did all non air grabber cars get that or was it part of an option?
 
Dont know if it was an option. What I can tell you is that on My 68 with a 69 air grabber hood the aftermarket hood pads are expensive and fit like a saddle on a sow. Ripped it off and pitched it in the trash.
 
I would have to look up the code, but the hood pad and undercoating was part of the sound deading package. Check to see if the car was completely undercoated from the factory. Not a Ziebart undercoating. If it was, then it should have the hood pad.
 
I would believe your car would have the insulation pad.
 
I saw on another post that you have the sales sticker. If it was coded on the sales sticker, that will answer your question.
 
Not certain it would be on a window sticker, but it would definitely be on the broadcast sheet (or not). J55 gave you FULL undercoat and a hood pad. You either got both or none!
 
dadsbee said:
Not certain it would be on a window sticker, but it would definitely be on the broadcast sheet (or not). J55 gave you FULL undercoat and a hood pad. You either got both or none!
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I'll take another close look at the under side but I believe it does have the factory under coating on it. Haven't found a broadcast sheet as of yet. About only spot left for that to turn up is in the headliner. The carpet, seats and above the glove box have been checked already. Headliner is still good so I hate to start ripping into that.
 
Yes, but I forget whom I got them from and will do some digging for you if nobody else answers quickly. I bought a hood pad for the Bird that claimed basically "as OE as they come" and then they supplied it with plastic clips! I got metal clips somewhere for it..
 
My car didn’t have the insulation pad when I bought it but did have the retaining clips (and pad remnants) left in the hood. I’ll have to look at the broadcast sheet again but I don’t recall any insulation package. My previous 69 RR’s were split, 1 had hood isulation 1 did not.
 
Interesting discussion as wondered (blindly) about putting one on my '63 that appeared as having one or attachments for it. One post says he tossed his. Sound deadening feature worth it for what? Nice for a quiet Imperial. I have a droptop as it is and noise is well noisy. It can't do much for reducing noise inside the cab and most have loud exhaust anyway...as mine does. Insulation...why? I need no features trapping more heat in the engine bay when I could use another 10-15 drop in temp. Cold weather? How many of us drive our cherry old cars in cold weather? Ok, maybe someone can say I'm all wrong and I'm all ears.
 
Ron H said:
Interesting discussion as wondered (blindly) about putting one on my '63 that appeared as having one or attachments for it. One post says he tossed his. Sound deadening feature worth it for what? Nice for a quiet Imperial. I have a droptop as it is and noise is well noisy. It can't do much for reducing noise inside the cab and most have loud exhaust anyway...as mine does. Insulation...why? I need no features trapping more heat in the engine bay when I could use another 10-15 drop in temp. Cold weather? How many of us drive our cherry old cars in cold weather? Ok, maybe someone can say I'm all wrong and I'm all ears.
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I always thought the hood insulation was to help protect the hood paint from all the engine heat. Back when I was 18 years old in '78 my 1st car, a 74 Roadrunner, initially had a hood pad but I took it off after A few years. After doing that, the paint on the hood gradually began to dull up and got to were I couldn't wax it anymore without lifting some paint off.
 
Two different manufactures of the molded style hood pads, REM and Repops. Various vendors sell these mats. These pads are relatively large and are required to be shipped flat which incurs oversize shipping charges. They are the closest as you will find for the pads as I have only seen one NOS pad in all of my years of sourcing parts. They do offer a black fiberglass version and the yellow fiberglass version at about the third of the price of the correct molded pads.

For the clips, there were four different manufactures of them. Now there is three. None of the reproduction clips fit as well as the factory clips. Depending your level of restoration, I would search out good used ones. The reproductions have a tendency to pop out as they never sit properly. Some guys will slightly ground the ears down slightly. Others will open the holes up slightly on the hood.

The 65 and earlier cars used the larger metal clips. The 66 to 72 used the smaller metal clips which were replaced with the plastic style in 73.
 
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TimS said:
I always thought the hood insulation was to help protect the hood paint from all the engine heat. Back when I was 18 years old in '78 my 1st car, a 74 Roadrunner, initially had a hood pad but I took it off after A few years. After doing that, the paint on the hood gradually began to dull up and got to were I couldn't wax it anymore without lifting some paint off.
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That's an interesting thought about some heat protection for the hood..
 
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