Clean up heat shield?
05-14-2007, 08:40 PM
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Clean up heat shield?
Just wondering what you guys are doing to clean up your exhaust heat shields? I wiped it down best I could, but its still a big eyesore compared to my freshly painted underside. Aside from replacing, what options do I have?
Heres a pic showing how bad it looks.
Heres a pic showing how bad it looks.
05-14-2007, 09:02 PM
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Car: 1985 Iroc-Z
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Re: Clean up heat shield?
I hit them with some wet sandpaper to clean off the surface rust and let dry. I then painted them with a high-temp spray paint. The color was a aluminum or grey, I believe Dupli-color. They came out looking almost like the original galvanized color. A sort of dull and not shiny look, but contrasted nicely with the new exhaust and muffler. When I get home tomorrow,i'll shoot you a pic.
05-15-2007, 05:14 PM
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Re: Clean up heat shield?
Sand it up, either paint it, undercoat it, or powder coat it
Be sure to straiten the dents and bends out before you do anything
Be sure to straiten the dents and bends out before you do anything
05-16-2007, 01:54 PM
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Re: Clean up heat shield?
My pic was over the limit for this forumn. Too many mb's. I took it when I was doing the rearend and muffler replacement. Now with everything installed, I cannot get a decent shot of it. Sorry
05-18-2007, 09:53 AM
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Re: Clean up heat shield?
Change it to JPG and scale it down, or host it somewhere like photobucket and link it over
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Most of the 3rd gens Ive scraped had pretty good heatshields because noone ever touched them
Id just leave your old and busted shields alone and pull some good ones to clean up off a JY car
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Most of the 3rd gens Ive scraped had pretty good heatshields because noone ever touched them
Id just leave your old and busted shields alone and pull some good ones to clean up off a JY car
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