[Dangerous Doug]

I don't want any rivets on my hood, so the aluminum panel method is out. I was considering having a custom fitted heat barrier made, but the problem becomes one of a heat-insensitive glue to hold it in place. I tried this with the heat barrier material before with not much luck.

The blistering isn't due to heat. It is occurring in the trunk as well, where heat isn't an issue.

The blistering started and was looking pretty bad. I put some heat-barrier material (glued) to try to cover it up and eventually it started to come loose. When I pulled this out, the remaining glue looked really $#itty. I was embarrassed to open my hood.

So far, I've scrapped all the glue off and sanded most of the original paint (I think it's trunk liner, or something, with a coat of black paint over it). Even if I just sand it down to fiberglass and throw a quick coat of paint on it this would look better than the blisters and glue slop.

I guess I need to think about how much work I want to put into this.
DD