How important are the header heat shields.

finallymysti · Feb 24, 2013

What the title says. Do I need the heat shields over the headers

Thanks

Spamby · Feb 24, 2013

Important enough you should try to retain the heat shielding or use a wrap.

This should probably be posted in the tech section as it doesn't seem to be urgent in nature. Please read the sticky for this forum. :tup:

Grinder34 · Feb 24, 2013

Yeah, important can mean a bunch of things. They help hold the heat in the exhaust to spool the turbo. They help prevent melting of the plastic under tray, or anything catching fire if you drip some oil down there. But many people use aftermarket headers that dont fit with the OEM heat shielding and are just fine. As spamby said, you should try to ceramic coat and/or heat wrap them, but its not the end of the world if you dont.

BAD STI · Feb 26, 2013

Are they stock manifolds? If aftermarket you should just wrap them. I like the DEI Titanium wrap and used it on my STI. For my ported OEM manifolds I wrapped them and then put the heat shields back on.

Batmobile_Engage · Feb 27, 2013

:tup: for DEI Titanium wrap. My (aftermarket) header and up pipe are wrapped up with this stuff.

How important are the header heat shields.

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