Rattling catalytic heat shield advice
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Glad my club sponsor was Magic Muffler growing up!
I'll attempt to be nice with my answer to this issue! The shield is there for a reason other wise they wouldn't have wasted the $$ to include it! Somewhere in every neighborhood is a muffler shop, find yours and have them weld the cover to stop the rattle! It's not rocket science, just logic!
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Blue Dream (09-11-2018)
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Posted MICKEY MOUSE FIX at first but no one would have a clue what I posted!
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Series though, the one time I went to a muffler shop to have a leak inspected (when I was young and dumb) they bent me over the barrel and had their way with me, ended up paying ~$700 for a fully welded together trainwreck of a 'custom' exhaust.
God damn I was dumb.
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Removing the heat shields is fine as well, though the floor boards will get a little warmer. The best solution is to make heat shields, wrapping only 1/2 of the cat conv., the 1/2 that radiates heat to the floor boards and transmission. Bonus is this will also help with exhaust scavenging buy keeping the cats a little hotter.
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Originally Posted by onevq35de
Give a shop $5 for anything and in return you'll receive a kick to the nutz. A stainless steel hose clamp is a fantastic way to deal with the issue. It's easy, cheap, quick and permanent. Infiniti did this on my FX many moons ago while under warranty.
Removing the heat shields is fine as well, though the floor boards will get a little warmer. The best solution is to make heat shields, wrapping only 1/2 of the cat conv., the 1/2 that radiates heat to the floor boards and transmission. Bonus is this will also help with exhaust scavenging buy keeping the cats a little hotter.
Removing the heat shields is fine as well, though the floor boards will get a little warmer. The best solution is to make heat shields, wrapping only 1/2 of the cat conv., the 1/2 that radiates heat to the floor boards and transmission. Bonus is this will also help with exhaust scavenging buy keeping the cats a little hotter.
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Some of us like to solve the problem ourselves, not pay our way out of them :P JSeries though, the one time I went to a muffler shop to have a leak inspected (when I was young and dumb) they bent me over the barrel and had their way with me, ended up paying ~$700 for a fully welded together trainwreck of a 'custom' exhaust.
God damn I was dumb.
God damn I was dumb.
Gary
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Everyone's got their own opinion about everything which is perfectly fine.
The fancy ties that I got from DEI and the one's that came with the really nice wrap that came with the Tomei headers, those are basically stainless steel worm drive clamps without the worm drive.
I've sure there's a reason why companies producing exhaust wrap ties chose to make them a pita to install. I can think of one reason. They're open-ended on one side whereas hose clamps are connected. Hose clamps can be disconnected from the worm drive but then can be a pita to get the end back into the mechanism that is the worm drive clamp. I MUCH prefer hose clamps and the more I write about'em, the more I wish I tossed the ties and used them from the start.
Spot welding is what gets sooo many heat shields on sooo many makes and models of auto's give & rattle. It's good business. Call it Planned Obsolescence.
The fancy ties that I got from DEI and the one's that came with the really nice wrap that came with the Tomei headers, those are basically stainless steel worm drive clamps without the worm drive.
I've sure there's a reason why companies producing exhaust wrap ties chose to make them a pita to install. I can think of one reason. They're open-ended on one side whereas hose clamps are connected. Hose clamps can be disconnected from the worm drive but then can be a pita to get the end back into the mechanism that is the worm drive clamp. I MUCH prefer hose clamps and the more I write about'em, the more I wish I tossed the ties and used them from the start.
Spot welding is what gets sooo many heat shields on sooo many makes and models of auto's give & rattle. It's good business. Call it Planned Obsolescence.
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I like what onevg35de had done to his FX.