Update: found a good deal on a rebuilt transmission on ebay, should be here by the end of the month. Anyway, thought I'd share these pics from Sunday.
I got the underside of the hood insulated and bedlined. Pretty much took the whole morning to clean it, it was pretty greasy and filthy. Should have taken a pic but didn't think about it. Then sand, scuff, and laying on boom matt. In hindsight, I should have bought a second pack as it didn't cover as much area as I thought it would, but at that point I could have just bought an oem hoodliner. Anyway, between that and the bedliner, I'm hoping it will insulate enough to speed up warm up times. I used herculiner that I had leftover from another project because it was getting old and I didnt want it to go bad.
(Yes, thats a pcv pipe holding the hood up.
Im not gonna buy a strut thats gonna die again and I haven't built a real hood prop yet.)