Sri5
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Registered: 8th Jul 04
Location: Hull
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My downpipe has a heat sheild around it which is corroding/dying on me. It rattles annoyingly all time. I have tried repairing, tieing wire round it, but i think i need a new one.
Trouble is, it looks to me like the pipe and sheild come as one fixed unit which would presumably mean a lot of money. Can i rip of the old sheild and put some kind of heat wrap tape around as a permant fix?
Cheers
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Greasemonkey
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Registered: 17th Apr 02
Location: Drives a Tractor
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dont need it, cut it off, job done, performance manifolds dont have em, cos ya dont need them
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Sri5
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Registered: 8th Jul 04
Location: Hull
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Oh right. easy enough then. Cheers for that!
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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i cut mine off
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Sri5
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Registered: 8th Jul 04
Location: Hull
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Does it give any other benifits, obviously apart from stopping the rattles!
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AdiSRI
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Registered: 1st May 02
Location: Berkshire
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mine rattled and so i cut it off too.
now it doesnt rattle thats the benefit...
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Sri5
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Registered: 8th Jul 04
Location: Hull
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Fair enough!
What i ment was does it increase/decrease the flow of the waste gasses.
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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i need to cut mine off, just cant be arsed with the jackin n the cuttin n the owwww its still hot...
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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does nothing for gas-flow
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AdiSRI
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Registered: 1st May 02
Location: Berkshire
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its just a cover, it cannot make any difference to anything.....
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Sri5
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Registered: 8th Jul 04
Location: Hull
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Its getting ripped off tonight then. Will take all of 2 minutes seen as how there's only half of it left!
Cheers for the advice
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kortas
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Registered: 21st May 03
Location: Stockport
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the idea, of that shield is to keep the heat away from your HT leads, and plugs, it also has another use, to feed warm air into the air box on a cold start, but since most people have an aircone anyway then that pipe is usualy pulled off, my heat shield is in the bin because it was doing the same thing, not noticed any damage to HT leads or plugs so just bin it,
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IntaCepta
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Mill Hill East, Greater London
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why did u guys cut it off?
can't you just unbolt it?
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jamesvalver
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Registered: 21st Feb 03
Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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there talkin about the downpipe headsheild, not the manifold heat sheild. i cut mine off n it sounded loads beta afterwards!
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