heatshield ?s

[ooberdoob]

anyone noticed any problem ripping the stock heatshields off?

mine rattle incredbly bad and i'm really about to snap them all off!

[dropdfocus]

Are you asking if taking them off was a problem or if there are any problems after you take them off?

No problems here with them removed. They can be a pain to remove if the bolts are heavily rusted.

[ooberdoob]

any problems with them off.

sorry for makin that one confusing!

[Huffer]

No problems here.

[belladonna]

there won't be any problems unless you consider getting rid of the annoying rattle a problem :wink:

[Wiscon_Mark]

nah, it's not like the heatshields waterproof them.

I'm gonna rip mine off as soon as the weather gets nice and I can get a nice place to put up the ramps. Then it's go time on a lot of stuff!!

[auspex]

what do the heatshields look like? where are they in the engine? haha, I know soooo little..

mike

[dropdfocus]

Thin pieces of contoured metal just above the exhaust as it runs back the bottom side of the car.

[tjpete04]

whats with subaru and the heat shield rattle? My car now rattles, my old car rattled, my friends 2003 wrx rattles and i've heard other subarus on the roads rattle...WTF

[smoke3006]

Hehe I was going to ask about this too.
Stupid rattling is really annoying till the exhaust heats up.

[Wiscon_Mark]

ugh, I still have to rip mine off :?

[Huffer]

whats with subaru and the heat shield rattle? My car now rattles, my old car rattled, my friends 2003 wrx rattles and i've heard other subarus on the roads rattle...WTF

A lot of cars have heatshield rattles. Not just Subarus.

[Lemanschamp]

i get a pretty bad rattle during engine braking, and i got underneath the thing, driver side shield was off a little bit and i tore it off easily. Rattle's still there :twisted:

[Plays_with_Toys]

My subaru mechanic put a big self tapping screw through the heat shield. No rattle any longer. At first when I was working on my car and saw it, I thought it was road debri that shot itself in there. Then I remember him saying that he was going to fix the heatshield (I figured take them off or something else). Anyway, I know my heatshield bolts are far too rusted to remove, they rusted and weak and start rounding off.

I have a rattle where my exhaust taps my rear swaybar. I want to figure that one out because it comes in sporadically.

[losdiosdeverde86]

Thin pieces of contoured metal just above the exhaust as it runs back the bottom side of the car.

there's also some wrapped around the y-pipe (there the two exhausts converge) and around the cat

[Sarra]

Put a Borla or EL header on, after getting it coated. Now way you can have just a simple header with coating rattle ever. :)

My rattle comes and goes. One day it's bad, the next it doesn't exist. Then again, I may have smashed everything into place by bottoming out the suspension a few times...

[rallysam]

Mine are off. No REAL probs, although underhood temps are higher. I want to heat wrap everything to stop baking the top mount intercooler so much.

[Wiscon_Mark]

Mine are off. No REAL probs, although underhood temps are higher. I want to heat wrap everything to stop baking the top mount intercooler so much.

You have a skidplate, don't you? I bet it would be a lot cooler at speed with the open air setup.

[rallysam]

Mine are off. No REAL probs, although underhood temps are higher. I want to heat wrap everything to stop baking the top mount intercooler so much.

You have a skidplate, don't you? I bet it would be a lot cooler at speed with the open air setup.

Nope, no skidplate, still very very hot