Im pretty sure it helps because tis almost a second firewall and i KNOW this one has enoguh glue/glass were as the first one seemed very thin and thus has very little surface area but now having it all glued in there there is about 3 times the surface area for the epoxy to hold that in which should help a bunch and there was very little tristock on the insted (3 small peice that were about a half inch long each.)