Foam in the engine bay

[Smitty1977]

OK I'm just about to start the winter clean up of the engine bay of the new car, But I was wondering- sandwiched Inbetween the inlet manifold and Camcover is a peice of shaped foam sponge shaped like the manifold, is it worth leaving it out once I've painted the Camcover and manifold, or is it there for some reason that I can't think of , if so i'll just wash it out and put it back on,

[rob]

It's probably been put there by a previous owner to stop a rattle?

[Smitty1977]

NA it looks genuine rob,

BTW it is a Rev 4

[littlemisstubby]

Any pics please Justin?

[Foxystuff]

Sonic and F'anni have them - there from stock according to d-peg.

[Smitty1977]

Sonic and F'anni have them - there from stock according to d-peg.

OK, so what is it there for and is it really needed?

will try to get pics later on today

[d-peg]

Only thing I can think is it'll stop rubbish building up in there but also lose some of the mechanical noise from the engine...? Only other thing to consider is without it there, rainwater has a direct passage through; what is there that could be affected.. Injectors maybe?

[baileydom]

Yep my rev4 has it too. Not sure what it does apart from help trap crap around the plug wells tbh just never gotten round to removing it.

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