Makes sense. I was just thinking that the exhaust gas crossover in the middle bottom of the intake would get hotter than the heat from the engine below? Sean Dan McCormack wrote: > > There was quite a discussion a while back on a Charger group I belong to > on if it was there for sound insulation or heat insulation. If I > remember right somebody finally found it listed in a parts book as a > sound insulation pad. ---- Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! '62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html.