Monday, November 5, 2007

Starnes turbo heatshield finished before and after

After an hour of cutting , some trial and error and some wasted material. The shield pic.


Unused Sections that were cut out of the Stainless Blank.



Testing the fitment and makin small cuts.




Here is the Heatshield before and after. Its 5 dollars worth of metal and about an hour worth of labor to get it cut. It doesnt look bad, well just need to see how functional it is later. :) The heatshield is 22 guage Stainless steel. It was originally a tubular shape and I cut a 4 in x 8 inch section out to fit. It is somwhat fleixble, so if you lean on it , it will give until it touches the turbo housing. Here is the first post for the heat shield idea. The metal tube shown there is my air filter heat shield. I was using it to see what it would look like. Click here to see begining of article. :)

http://upgradecar.blogspot.com/2007/10/making-turbo-heat-shield.html

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