So I'm sure many people have an aftermarket downpipe, when I got mine installed they left the heat shield on which rattled like crazy since it was an aftermarket downpipe. I took it off for awhile and decided to just custom fab my old one very simple to do, threw a Cermaic coat on it, cut off the bottom half and reused the 3 10mm holes on the exhaust manifold and that's it.

 

Nice

 

Interesting. I had the same issue, decided to just bend it to make it stop rattling. I like your way much better, much cleaner.

 

Thanks, just something real easy to do and feel good about. The Cermaic coat helped the heat alot imo