Hood Question

[Ferrino]

What's the material on the interior side of the hood, please? Looking to repaint my hood and I'm sure I've seen pics where people have painted the bare metal on the inside. Can you remove this "lining/undercoating" stuff? Mine is a 1976 911 shorthood.

[Oh Haha]

The factory typically painted the underside of the hood with "schutz". I believe it's the same as the front valance and side rocker covers. It's paintable.

[Uwon]

My '86 was painted the same as the outside and I'm pretty sure it was original.

[kach22i]

Both my 1977 hood and the replacement 1982 hood have that bubbly texture on the underside.

To my eyes it looks like a larger scale version of the rocker panel and valance texture which is finer (if I recall correctly).

I would think that if you want to save a little weight, leave the texture off, it's gotta weigh something, right?

[Ferrino]

Thanks. The reason I asked is because the car was resprayed at some point and the new paint must have reacted or not adhered to the factory paint on the "schutz" stuff - it caused a "wrinkling" effect which looks bad. It looks like the schutz would be a lot of work to remove, so I wonder if it can be sanded to remove all previous paint and then re-topcoated?

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Ferrino

remove all previous paint

Going to be hard to sand that texture down.

There is a paint and body work part of the forum, several experts there, post your Q's there.

I suspect the underside of the hood was not primed, which is why the finish paint did not stick.

However I am far from being an expert unless being an expert at making painting mistakes counts.