i seem to have a fair bit of heat shield rattle due to exhaust resonance around the rearward heat shields.

i was wondering if it is safe to remove them.
is there another way to stop the rattle?
the pipe seems to be quite hot there, i'm worried that if i remove it the heat might damage something.

TIA.

peace out.

 

I have had mine off for a year and it has posed no problems. I dont have carpet or sound deadening though and I can stand the extra heat.

 

Have you tried to bend it a little?

 

If you also try doing a seach for "heat shields" you'll get a ton of stuff.


[Modified by Lovebuzz13, 1:50 AM 3/23/2002]

 

I removed all of my heat shields when I bought my car new cause the one under the shifter started rattling. That was 3.5 years ago and about 1.5 years ago I removed carpeting and sound deadening only problem so far is more heat in the interior but that's it, no damage done.

 

<U>REMOVE IT ALL!! NEVER HAD A PROBLEM W/ REMOVING IT!!</U>

 

i've had my head shields off ever since I installed my Greddy exhaust a few years ago.. never had any problems...

 

That's prolly the infamous Integra Exhaust Manifold rattle...

 

Yeah i took off all my damn shields, i thought. Later drove the car and it still rattled Realized that its the damn heatshield behing the manifold.

 

I just took off my front manifold heat shield to re-paint it black, and I noticed that if I push on the edge of the rear heat shield and release it, it makes a sound not unlike what I hear at 3500rpm. Now if that's the culprit I would be happy because that means I don't have to buy a header just to fix the noise (although I still may buy one). Now I just got to get around to pulling the manifold off the car so I can get that thing off.