When I don't have my car in gear and I press down the accelerator slightly, I hear this little rattling sound coming from about the center of the car. I'm guessing it's my heat shield starting to come off and it's rattling. What you guys think?

 

Probably heatshield. Take it off. No harm done.

 

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Just wondering how can you tell if it is the heatshield or the A-pipe that's rattles?

 

You'd kind of have to hear it, I guess. Heatshield is usually somewhere between 3-4K RPM as well. I don't know, really. I just go with heatshield as a first guess since that's almost always what it is. If the problem isn't solved, start looking into other things.

 

Yep my car also does a strange rattle type sound when I let go of the accelerator it does that sound at about 3.5k I guess it is the heat shield.

How would I go about in removing the heat shield?

 

BFH and a large prybar. It should be bolted on there, my guess with some 8 or 10mm bolts...

 

my car does the same **** with dc header ( no heat shield). thought it was my cat, so i disconnected it (open header) and still makes the ******* nosie..
they tell me it might be my exhaust gasket...
u might wanna check that out...