Manifold Wrapping - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

cosmicbutthairs · 06-29-2003, 11:21 PM

I have this stupid plate thats acting like a heat shield on the exhaust manifolds. I was wondering if anyone replaced this piece of shit with some sorta of wrapping because I'm losing bolts inside of this stupid plate and scrapped my hands and fingers on this thing enough times. What idiot design a shield to have a nice hole for things to fall into and not fall out through the bottom? Sorry had to rant. Pissing me off big time.

boroEF · 06-29-2003, 11:48 PM

wrapping wont give u any noticable gains and it will rust out ur exhaust manifold faster....

i dont even have the top heat shield on my exhaust manifold....one of the previous owners must've taken it off =(

mr_sinister · 06-30-2003, 11:17 AM

if you take the top heat shield off, just make sure you protect your distributer somehow.. heat from my header melted a hole in my dizzy and cause me some problems..

boroEF · 06-30-2003, 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by mr_sinister
if you take the top heat shield off, just make sure you protect your distributer somehow.. heat from my header melted a hole in my dizzy and cause me some problems..

oh boy that's pretty scary

thanks for the tip. so far my dizzy has been fine. i t's got it's own heat shield

celica/camry · 06-30-2003, 01:18 PM

theres always headder paint

cosmicbutthairs · 06-30-2003, 05:48 PM

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Originally posted by boroEF

oh boy that's pretty scary

thanks for the tip. so far my dizzy has been fine. i t's got it's own heat shield

You mind taking a picture of your dizzy? I wanna compare it with the dizzy I had on it before. Mine didn't have a heat shield and the one I got off of Deep had one.

It would be really interesting to know why all dizzy's don't come with some sorta shielding.

cosmicbutthairs · 06-30-2003, 05:49 PM

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Originally posted by celica/camry
theres always headder paint

That would really protect?

boroEF · 06-30-2003, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by cosmicbutthairs

You mind taking a picture of your dizzy? I wanna compare it with the dizzy I had on it before. Mine didn't have a heat shield and the one I got off of Deep had one.

It would be really interesting to know why all dizzy's don't come with some sorta shielding.

it's normal for a 4ag dizzy to have a heat shield...it's just a metal peice that is under the dizzy..no digi cam so i cant help u there.

and anyway my dizzy is different...my engine is redtop not bluetop

boroEF · 06-30-2003, 06:50 PM

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Originally posted by cosmicbutthairs

That would really protect?

header paint will protect it from oxidization and stuff like that...but very little....at least it'll help

cosmicbutthairs · 06-30-2003, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by boroEF

it's normal for a 4ag dizzy to have a heat shield...it's just a metal peice that is under the dizzy..no digi cam so i cant help u there.

and anyway my dizzy is different...my engine is redtop not bluetop

ahh I see.
Yeah my original dizzy had no shielding. I wonder if this is true with other blue top owners

cosmicbutthairs · 06-30-2003, 06:56 PM

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Originally posted by boroEF

header paint will protect it from oxidization and stuff like that...but very little....at least it'll help

heh, I'm more worried about the distributor. I think my exhaust is gonna rust off.

project trueno · 06-30-2003, 09:58 PM

i have a spare dizzy glove from a 85 GTS, its up on ebay if anyone is interested