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EFFII
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:38 pm 
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Is there a downside to taking off the firewall padding?
mine is ripped and looks ugly and i wanna take it off but not sure if it will effect anything..
any advice would be great
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TROYMAN
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:54 pm 
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the downside would be engine heat possably heating the firewall making it hotter inside the car??
and you might hear more engine and road noise..
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Gaz
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:30 am 
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yeh, its there for some sound proofing and heat resistance. IIRC the lower models didn't have it?

 

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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:14 am 
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fututras got it :S gli might not of

 

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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:48 am 
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il just spray some sound deadening stuff after i take off the padding
it wont look that bad..
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:31 pm 
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GLi's missed out on it, everything else had it .. mostly road noise .. heat transfer is minimal!

 

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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:33 pm 
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I took mine off my mont cause it looks better, been no drams
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:32 pm 
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Gaz wrote:
yeh, its there for some sound proofing and heat resistance. IIRC the lower models didn't have it?


My gli had it. Not sure if it was optional or not but its always had it.

Mine was stuffed so i removed and replaced with the one out of the ef donor car. My car is now quiter and not as warm on the floor.

 

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