I have removed the rubber hood seal from the top of the cowl near the wiper-arms and removed the rubber "flaps" from either side of the radiator (it NEVER rains here so water isn't an issue)....it seems to have lowered the underhood temps by quite a bit (near ambient after a 70 mph cruise....I could put my hand on the throttle-body without frying skin off)....does anyone see any reason why I shouldn't leave it like this to help reduce the rediculous underhood temps ???

 

i'll be buying a hood w/ some heat extractors myself...

 

Well a good way is to ditch the exhaust manifolds and get some Jet Hot coated headers. Jet Hot makes huge differences in under hood temps keeping heat soak to a minimum.

Other than that I have my rubber flaps trimmed back for my 34" radiator. The larger radiator dropped my coolant temps with the lower temp thermostat and made a vey noticable difference when I pop the hood.

 

i removed my flaps as well...