I basjoosed my headlights today (sealed the surrounding gap)

[khafra]

Just to check--after 3 years, nobody has had any engine bay fires, or burnt out headlights after sealing their headlight gaps?

Even so, I'm not sure I feel comfortable doing it--I recently got an OBD-II reader hooked up for the first time, and my coolant temps regularly hit 207 even on the freeway; destroying my dreams of partial grill blocks. Florida seems to tax a car's cooling capacity to the utmost.

[MetroMPG]

If I were in your situation, I'd investigate making the pathway for cooling air to the radiator more efficient (ie. ducting it so flow through the grille goes not then escape into other areas where it does not aid radiator cooling).

Some cars are better designed than others from the factory in this respect.

[Phantom]

On my GrandPrix I sealed the headlights with some thick foam tape by removing the light adding the tape then reinstalling the light I only did it one as I wanted fresh air to enter the intake. One bennifit though is that there is no bounce or shake in the light now as there was before.

A side note I also used foam that is placed around window ACs to seal the large gap in the channel the hood sits in.