Anyone removed this thing? What purpose does it actually serve? Its causing the top of my cone filter to be al little smashed and I wanted to remove it but before I do I wanted to see if its important.

 

pad? you talking bout hte engine cover?

 

i think he means the one on the hood...just leave it on, if its hitting your intake, than ur intake is not installed right, go back and re read instructions and do it over....

 

oh ok! yah i have the same problem, but a coupler on my intake is what is rubbing on the hood blanket

 

only thing i had touching the blanker on my intake when i was n/a was the rubber sealer thing on my intake, which was suppose to touche it to seal off engine bay heat :p, aside fromt hat, i have had a custom intake, GMPP, intake jdm intake, injen intake, and the KnN intake, none had a issue with the hood blanket

 

well...here ill go take a pic...hard to explain lol

 

when i had my cobalt i had the same problem with my injen. when it was installed as a short ram the top of the cone filter was smashing the hood blanket and it was installed correctly. but installed as a cold air it was perfect no rubbing or anything.

 

on mine the first 2 sets of o-rings holding the couples on the pipes rub on the hood blanket and have burned the blanket

 

yea man just turn the couplers so they're facing down. and not touching the hood blanket when the hood is closed. simple as that.

 

yeah my problem is that my intake is short air ram, pretty sure installed correclty, just comes in contact slightly with the hood blanket(had no idea what to call it before).