Well as luck would have it the air cleaner was rubbing the hood insulation pad just enough to scuff up the AC top after it would be polished, so I made a decision to remove the OEM insulation pad and make my own which would be fitted inside the hood cut outs kinda like GM did. I made a template of each hole and then made each piece of insulation to fit the template. Gonna try to put them in the hood next week. I'll first have to trim the excess hood to inner brace glue that bleeds over into the openings. A bit of pucker factor on a finished hood but we do what we have to...