sup guys

when i drive my car for a while, heat starts coming from the ebrake handle area ..
i have DC headers installed, but it never used to do this over the winter ..
does anyone have any idea why this is happening ?

 

Same, DC Sports header too.. got heat coming up through there too

 

i'll answer yes to Heat and yes to DC header, In a DA tho. Anyone got any good answers?

 

Theres a rubber boot that goes over the shifter. If that isent put on properly or is stretched or damaged it will allow heat to enter the cab area along with exhuast gases ect if its not sealing properly.


Its part 7 or 8 I forget which,

 

#8

*#6, hard to read the #s


Modified by Aphelion at 7:11 AM 6/30/2005

 

oh **** mines broken better get that fixed

 

check the heat shield y0

 

Mine did the same. My shifter used to get quite hot as well.

 

there is an exhaust heat shield above the cat as well, is yours still there?

 

I dont have the shield on mine and it dosent get hot, the shifter may get warm but thats about it. Its deffiently something to check into tho!

 

ummm I learned something new today

did not know about this

 

it's not #8. That's the weird deal that cradles the ball on the shifter. It'll be 1, 6 or 7.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Bakeoff &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it's not #8. That's the weird deal that cradles the ball on the shifter. It'll be 1, 6 or 7.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I misread, just like the poster of the picture did. I meant #6, just as he did, I'm sure.

 

ok, Ive been looking at that thing for a half hr and cant find number 6. The part Im referring to is a rubber boot that goes over the shifter and goes around the raised up piece going thro the floor board. theres like a grove it seats into to keep everything out.

Edit I think I MAY have figured it out. It appears that there is two #8's in the pic one of them is obviously a 6 so if the top most one right below the shiffter is #6 then that is the part you need for sure. Sorry for the mix up.

 

now i have both the dc header and the dc short shifter and since putting the shifter in i have noticed the shifter itself getting hot to the touch but no heat from the ebrake handle. not sure if the #6 peice is on my car don't remeber seeing it when i was doing the swap. but if im reader the posts right if that is missing there can be heat by the shifter?????

 

Are you all sure its not # 11?

I think it is, cause it sorta fits in the hole in the chassis, and is at the bottom.

 

Heres a pic I just saw in someone elses post of the boot im talking too.
Thanks DeeMeeTree



See the inner parts seals around the shifter and the outer part goes around that lip, its off in that pic tho and is propably your proplem.

 

yeah but with that boot would the dc short shifter still get warm. since aluminum is a very good conductor of heat

 

i thought this guy was talking about the *ebrake* not the shifter

he said he gets heat from the ebrake area

not the shifter

 

when you remove the ebrake console the are two rubber seals that come from under the car where the ebrake cables come thru. if those aren't sealed right heat will come in thru there. hope this helps

 

Metal is good heat conductor. The exhaust piping is right under the shifter area, within a couple inches. The shifter is made of metal, whichever metal that might be, so it is going to get hot.

There is a heatshield right above it, but it doesn't do anything. It doesn't dissipate heat worth a crap.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nocturnaldragon &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Heres a pic I just saw in someone elses post of the boot im talking too.
Thanks DeeMeeTree



See the inner parts seals around the shifter and the outer part goes around that lip, its off in that pic tho and is propably your proplem.</TD></TR></TABLE>That pic shows number 7. And lets think about this people, don't you think the ebrake area is close enough to the shifter that heat rising up from that area could feel like it's coming from the ebrake area? There is just a little more open area for the heat to travel through because the ebrake boot isn't attached like the shift boot.

 

topic says ebrake....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by menkio &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">topic says ebrake....</TD></TR></TABLE>Who gives a **** what the topic says, we are trying to discover the root o the problem. Not wether or not the topic title is actually where the problem is occuring or if it the component responsible. What a waste of a post. Ok smart ***, why is there heat coming from the e-brake area?