"CAUTION: HOT"




Like printing "Notice: be sure the engine is turned off before installing" on the back of an accessory belt:squint:

 

Your car looks pretty tight in your sig pic bro, as soon as I get a place w/garage im gonna get some gunmetal rims w/polished lip, these:


Im gonna have to get the lip polished but it'll be worth it.

 

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Did I miss something?

 

Uh, yeah. Didn't you ask for advice on your exhaust header heat shield? You started this thread:dunno:

 

No, I didn't ask for advice, just wondering if there were any side effects. I think I'll just paint the heat shield, not like oem LX headers are anything to show offh:

 

i have a 98 accord sedan i took mine off too , but people are telling me it should stay on . i guess it isnt good to have all that heat in the engine bay ? i am just going to paint the heat shield

 

just a thought, if you have a CAI as well. wouldnt this cause some effects if more heat was now created under your hood? the whole pupose of the CAI is to pull in cold air, well if this causes that much of an effect then the CAI would now be neutralized. your (minimal but still noticable) horsepower would be gone because you would be pulling in mixed air just like if you had a stock filter box still on there. well maybe not as much so to that effect but i think it would do something dont you?

i like the idea of painting/polishing it. and i think fastball was just trying to point out that you shouldnt go be an idiot and try to do it right after you drove your car. more like after your done driving your car, you wake up and its been sitting out and its cold all night. just my $.02

 

I don't think if you have a CAI you'd be pulling in mixed air(hot and cold) cause the filter isn't in the engine compartment so I don't see how that would be possible. I don't think the engine bay will be any hotter w/o the heat shield cause it doesn't cool down the headers at all, they still get as hot would w/o it on, and the shield doesn't seal the headers or the heat they produce from the rest of the engine compartment so I think it'll be the same temp in there myself.
Im not an idiot, I know not to play w/the headers/heat shield after driving the car, I can't imagine anybody being that dense and doing that.

 

The heat shield does nothing for anything except to warn you that the header is hot. It doesn't affect cooling, has no affect performance, and the only reason Honda has them on there is a safety measure. As in "don't touch the freakin header after you've driven the car for an hour". It serves no functional purpose what so ever as to how the engine or intake or cooling system runs. Even with the sheild on, the temp in there is the same. It's just got an extra part to heat up!

 

That sheild with the hand on it gets almost as hot as the headers. But it is only there for cosmetic purposes, mainly so that Honda didn't have to polish the headers themselves. It is fine to take it off just be careful and don't burn yourself. Just those 3 bolts!