Lift off hood question

Getting ready to pull the trigger on a scat pack shaker. My question, does anyone make a lift off fiberglass hood for them? Would like something like the old A12 hood, but set up for a shaker. Thanks

 

^^ I imagine one is available but with the Shaker writing under the hood I feel it makes the 'under hood look' better than ever. You would lose that by removing the hood obviously.
Of course whatever you like is best and you would have one unique show car for sure.

 

The last thing you want to do on a V8 HEMI (especially a 392), is to replace the aluminum hood with a composite hood. The aluminum hood is key to absorbing and displacing heat from the HEMI engine bay. Yeah, I know people do it, but, it's a bad idea. It's your car, do with it as you will.

Also... Be careful of seeking advice on the internet. The level of misinformation is staggering! Here's a thread from another forum where a Challenger owner is asking is 249 degree oil is too hot? Take a look at the replies he's getting...

https://www.challengertalk.com/threads/are-my-oil-temperatures-too-high.690208/

Here is a chart of what's happening to your engine when the oil rises above 250 degrees. Any tech worth his salt knows this to be accurate. Videos of metal shavings found in the HEMI oil control valve is the result of thermal breakdown.



Oil changes should be clocked via engine runtime, not miles driven. Use 0W40 full synthetic in the 392. I'd stick with Pennzoil Ultra. Leave the car stock.

 

Kind of on the same subject, but not. My son removed the plastic shroud on his 2019 Charger 5.7 engine. He said that the car runs 5-6 degrees cooler now. Is there any reason that this should not have been done? I know every thing has a purpose, but is that true with this shroud?

 

Heat travels up, so yes. Removing the shroud helps transfer heat to the aluminum hood which also acts as a heat-sink.

 

More bad advice... This is the kind of idiotic content that you need to be mindful of when visiting forums.

OP: I put in the Hellcat lower air box. Now thinking about replacing the ducting leading to the throttle body.
Thinking about heat soak though? Is the intake factory ducting more efficient than aluminum or stainless?

Reply: Heat soak is beneficial. The heated intake hardware heats the intake air and at engine start the heated intake air makes for better combustion which helps gas mileage, improves engine tractability, and lowers engine deposit build up and oil contamination.

 

You have shrouds over the fuel injection components

 

Thanks for the replies and info, I will pass this on to my son.