Stoping air infiltration at VS hood hinge openings

I'm Still working on "weathering in" my car. My current pipe dream is lubricated over-lapping rubber "blades" or "scrubbers" attached vertically on both sides of the hinge slot inside the trunk. Anybody been down this road?
As an ol' sheet metal worker, I've also been thinking about "boxing in" the hinges on the inside of the car. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks all for a great Speedster forum!
Ernie

Intermeccanica boxes in the hinges in the fiberglass mold. My thoughts are: "it works".

5/16" slot in piece of rubber, be sure to radius the ends so as not to have the slots "rip" over time. You can also do this with two individual pieces to allow for an overlap.
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You can box the hinges in from under the dash with boxes molded of fiberglass. Make them outside of the car (determine size and shape with cardboard, then either use that as a mold or make up a separate mold) and then you can either glass them in or make up some body filler and use that like cement to glue them in.

If I were to do it again, though, I would make up the boxes outside and then just glue them in with clear silicon caulk (use something to hold them in place while the caulk cures). MUCH easier to work with than trying to glass them in.

gn

Look in the CMC build manual there is a 2x5x4 fiberglass box that gets epoxied/FG'd under the dash to stop the air infiltration.

https://www.speedsterowners.com/library/fiberfaba/images/fiberfaba034.jpg

That's the idea...I just incorporated flanges where the box meets the body to give them more attachment surface and glued them on with Bondo. Silicon Caulk would work better, or even "Liquid Nails".

i just installed mine two nights ago. pretty easy. trim the box to fit the hinge / mounting bracket and fiberglass it in.for a rubber seal - i've used 1971 era rubber bumper brackets. they fit very nicely and look like they are supposed to be there.

Perfect guys! Wolfgang's link was the icing on the cake! Next stop for me is the sheet metal shop. I'll simply include mounting flanges when I fab my boxes.
Thanks again
Ernie