The heatshield rattles against my apex pipe so god damn much I'm sick and tired of it. I've tried to bend the heatshield out of the way but there's always a rattle. The heatshield seems to be covering the brake lines that go to the rear brakes, is it safe to remove this?


[Modified by skafia, 2:23 PM 1/4/2003]

 

should be fine, i know tons of people whove done it, you probably wont be doing much off-roading so the lines should be safe

 

all of my heatsheild and dustsheild are gone

 

There is not alot of weight savings in removing the heat shields. But I would remove it in a heart beat if it was causing a rattling.

 

Took mine off just incase rattles started

 

Well... in my attempts to remove the lower exhaust heatshield I ended up just using some sheet metal shears to cut off the part that was rattling.

I couldn't access the 2 bolts directly above the resonator (stripped one of them) so this will have to do for now. If that bitch rattles I'm going to trade my damn car in for a WRX

hehe.

 

 

I removed mine. Three days later a piece of cardboard off the road got caught up there and my car burned to the ground. My sister was trapped inside screaming for me to save her but all I could do was watch as her skin melted from her skeleton.

Ok maybe I made that up. I think you should be fine.

 

LOL!!