Removed my Hood Blanket.. Need Help (pics included)

[jmir018]

Ok, so i am washing my rims....
and started wondering whether the underside of my hood was painted. next thing i know that thing is gone
Couple of things..

THe underside of the hood was not painted..:bash:
However there were no pieces of tape at all..:beer:



so what do i do with this cable? totally remove it? screw it someplace else?

Could anyone that has done this before please help me out?
thanks so much.

Jersey
pd: This is what the underside looks like without the blanket..

 

[jmir018]

forgive the crappy pictures they were taken with my camera phone...

 

[Juiced-03]

Ya man I just threw out that strap. I think it has something to do with AM radio, I never use the radio anyway lol

 

[sambandit]

WTF is the deal. Why are some painted and others are not? Weren't these painted on an assembly line? It seems very few are painted completely. Fortunately I am a lucky one.

 

[sam]

if the question is to remove the ground cable, then the answer is yes.

 

[Narcosynthesis]

That sucks. Mine is painted. Wonder why?

 

[jmir018]

cool.. so i removed it.
Cleaning underneath was a @#$@#$3. I am gonna have to clay bar that whole thing.
I ended up putting rags, towels, whatever i could find on top of the engine and just hosing the thing down.
I might take my messed up hood blanket to ford and see if they can give me a replacement and put it back on.
we'll see what happens..

 

[byevette]

Originally posted by jmir018
cool
I might take my messed up hood blanket to ford and see if they can give me a replacement and put it back on.
we'll see what happens..

Well, you allready did the cutout, so they will not replace it. I originally had water damage then I did the cutout, then I tried to replace it. I was not thinking:bash:

I am having my underside repainted with the warranty, due to "factory defect".

http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99866

:beer:

 

[MotoXracer21]

Yeah i was just about to tell him about your thread...
BTW- byevette- tell me those numbers are STD, or im gonna be buying a magnaflow x-pipe today! hehe...

 

[KiLLaBytE]

after removing my blanket, the underside of the hood has 2 or 3 small pieces of tape and it looks like it was cheaply spray painted with about 1/2 can of paint.

ah well, who ever looks under there anyway! :lol1:

 

[byevette]

Originally posted by MotoXracer21

BTW- byevette- tell me those numbers are STD, or im gonna be buying a magnaflow x-pipe today! hehe...

I am happy to say they are SAE.

They were 437 STD.:mj:

For some reason, it seems that only the black cars were painted on the underside.

:beer:

 

[Dana]

Originally posted by byevette

For some reason, it seems that only the black cars were painted on the underside.
:beer:

Mine is painted fairly well and it's not black.

BTW, if you look real close you can see that the pulley cover is covering the third idler. ;-)

Dana

 

[RedSquad7]

OK- If you remove the hood blanket, are there any risks of engine heat damaging the finish on the outside of the hood? I had a couple of buddies tell me that with metal hoods this can be a problem Vs a fiberglass hood. You guys have done it...i figure you'd know best.

 

[sgt d]

is the painted and unpainted problem color specific? if one redfire is painted should we figure the other r/f should be too?

 

[jcayer]

I left my blanket on for heat reasons as well as listening to am at the track (mason dixon announcer is broadcast short distance on am, so you can hear whats going on while waiting/staging)

but when I took it off for the hood mod, it was compleatly painted on the underside and no tape...

Perhaps it goes by production time (aka, Mine was at the end due to it being a 10'th ann)

Oh, forgot to mention.. its Silver

 

[MotoXracer21]

Originally posted by byevette
I am happy to say they are SAE.

They were 437 STD.:mj:

For some reason, it seems that only the black cars were painted on the underside.

:beer:

OT-Wow those are some STRONG numbers man! you have a beast! Any idea how much the x-pipe added?