quote:Originally posted by Ace:
Love it, me car has a ways to go before it looks as clean as yours!
Do you think the heat shield is really required? I've herd yes and no, my car did not come with one, and hasn't been driven very far since the 180's were installed..
Well, it does get toasty in there. The powder coating on the headers supposedly reduces the surface temperature of the headers 180 degrees.
The guys that did mine made a big deal out of coating both the inside and outside of the pipes.
I never thought to measure the temp in a before and after thing?
The place on the decklid that you need to shield the most is the portion that is right over the bellhouse. That is where all the pipes cross over and some are only 3/4" from the decklids inner spider.
I also have the Webers shielded and the decklid struts as well.
If you follow the triangular shape of the spider there, that is sufficient. Kind of looks "artsy" there too.
I can tell you that I have burned myself on those pipes more than a few times simply because they never LOOK hot.