Orange heater foam in engine compartment needed

[red911]

Hello all,

I have destroyed my orange foam during the disassembly, and I tried gray foam pipe wrap, but that melted. Anyone have any ideas. I need two sets, or a total of four.

Thanks in advance, Tom

[MTemp]

Hello Tom,

I have the same problem, can't find any source of the original material, and so plan to use this

http://www.pipelagging.com/22mm-sola...ack-p-545.html

It's a UK website but I'm sure you'll find something similar in the US. Talking to them it is capable of handling the temperature, and can be painted, so I plan to spray mine orange for an authentic look.

Mick

[RS-GT]

Excuse my ignorance, but where this 'orange foam' is going in the engine compartement ?

Thanks
JD

[robmog]

tom,
here are some crappy pieces i got with some other parts.
not sure if they're usable.
pm your address and i'll ship them out to you.
bob

[PeterM1965]

I need this too. I wish there was a source or replacement.

JD it's used in the pre 1969 911s to provide hot air to the rear defrosters from the heat exchangers.

[Jay Laifman]

But, is there a reason they used porous foam for this? Why not just a solid tube? My '67 has a solid tube with the common home air conditioning foam over it. It looks great and matches the sound pad material nicely. But, I've been wondering if the porousness was intended to perhaps let oil/exhaust fumes, should there be any, blow out into the engine compartment and not the car? Just a WAG to understand why they did it that way. I don't think it is true (because certainly there shouldn't be anything but warm air in there) - but still would like to understand. If the foam was intended to be insulation, why not still have the tube with the foam around it? Expense?

[edmayo]

I used some foam material from McMaster-Carr, it is grey in color however. It has not burned off in over 6,000 miles now. I believe the foam material was used to help muffle noise.

[Fritter]

Will at CSP has a kit, I bought that and put it on my '68, working good. It has a flexi cardboard/aluminum hose inside a foam outer core.

I tried pipe insulation from Home Depot before that, and like others said, it melted!

[Schiefer]

Will at CSP has a kit, I bought that and put it on my '68, working good. It has a flexi cardboard/aluminum hose inside a foam outer core.

I tried pipe insulation from Home Depot before that, and like others said, it melted!

Hi Mike,
I can´t find this kit on the CSP site. Could you provide a link?? Very happy with CSP and William!!

TIA

[merbesfield]

I believe the reason they used foam was for sound control.