they've always been firewall mounted without messing up the paint, the ceramic block is designed to avoid that, and on the firewall is the best place for dissipating the heat - do NOT try to 'hide' it someplace where it could be a fire hazard
"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir "When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me Some TF series details & TF heater pics
