on the factory headers there is like a metal plate over them that says HOT , could you take that off ? ? ? ? and be able to see the headers ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

 

yea but that heat shield keeps alot of heat out of the engine bay, which can, make stuff hotter which isnt good

 

ohh well ....nothing will get damaged will it ? ?

 

I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday. It would look sooo much better than the ugly yellow/cream colored thing. My engine bay doesn't look too bad with the tower support, yellow ignition wires, and intake, but that one thing kind of dominates. Would it really be that bad to remove it?

 

i dont think so , i just removed it today , it was alot better than that metal thing , but yeah it will get hot under the hood ,, but thats normal right ??

 

Lets see...the smart Honda enginers in Japan designed that part to go there for a specific reason...if it weren't important then they wouldn't have made one to go there.

 

tru that...

heat = bad...

but my friend did it to his civic anyways so what the hell... it's your car.

 

let's see, first of all, unless you have an ex you don't have a factory header. you have an exhaust manifold. secondly, if you remove the heat shield, you do two things. you allow your engine bay to het hot as ****, which makes your performance suffer and that heat that gets dissapated in your engine bay doesn't leave with the exhaust like it is intended, this slows down the velocity of your exhaust gasses, which makes your performance suffer as well. bottom line is that you can, but it's not a very good idea.

 

ok how about painting that heat sheild is that possible to do with some hight temp paint?

 

header = exhaust manifold. its just symantics

the stock header looks like sh!t anyways.. i'd rather stare at the heat shield. the one omy accord was silver, it looked fine. you can paint it with hi-temp paint if u want.

ive heard stories of their stock headers cracking b/c they removed the heat shield. dunno if its tru tho. they couldve just hit something on the road