Originally Posted by MondoBongo

alright guys, i need a little advice. under my car there is a heat shield between the body of the car and the exhaust. it's come loose in a few places and is rattling at anything under 3k rpms.

i tried to get it out the other day, but two of the supports that hold it on are also anchor bolts for the driveshaft. which wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that my exhaust is just a *bit* too large to let me access one of the bolts needed to drop the driveshaft and heat shield.

now the obvious solution would be to take off the resonator pipe to access the bolt, but after the ***** of a time i had getting the resonator pipe to seal to the rear of the cat, i am not willing to remove it again.

has anyone else removed their heat shield? i tried getting in there with my dremel, but no dice. it's too large to fit in between the driveshaft and exhaust pipe.

i could probably get away with just trimming most of it off under the front footwells. i thought about using a saw zaw, but i think i would end up damaging the body because of how close the heat sheilf hugs it. and i don't have on. ha.

so basically i am looking for a lazy and effective solution.


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Originally Posted by Mike01gsr

Have you picked up your car from bauldy yet? He sent me a pic of it saying evo love in the shop....lol...I was like who's evo is that, when I seen the plate I was like hey she just signed up on the forum...small world.

Originally Posted by Canexican

Well, I know everyone is going to tell me how gay I am when I say this, but GO FOR A 135i! Smaller, lighter, cheaper, and better . Pretty sure I'm the only one that likes the freakin' thing. Colin, shut up...its gorgeous.QUOTE]

haha, you know, when i went to get my fiance her 3 series they were all about selling me a 135. it drives spectacular, too bad about the looks though

Originally Posted by MondoBongo

alright guys, i need a little advice. under my car there is a heat shield between the body of the car and the exhaust. it's come loose in a few places and is rattling at anything under 3k rpms.

i tried to get it out the other day, but two of the supports that hold it on are also anchor bolts for the driveshaft. which wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that my exhaust is just a *bit* too large to let me access one of the bolts needed to drop the driveshaft and heat shield.

now the obvious solution would be to take off the resonator pipe to access the bolt, but after the ***** of a time i had getting the resonator pipe to seal to the rear of the cat, i am not willing to remove it again.

has anyone else removed their heat shield? i tried getting in there with my dremel, but no dice. it's too large to fit in between the driveshaft and exhaust pipe.

i could probably get away with just trimming most of it off under the front footwells. i thought about using a saw zaw, but i think i would end up damaging the body because of how close the heat sheilf hugs it. and i don't have on. ha.

so basically i am looking for a lazy and effective solution.




not even close dude. i've only done 2 or 3 autocrosses and the kart track on them. they're damn near brand new.

Originally Posted by spumoni1984

Someday, you will see the light Colin...someday.

Mike...I'm officially jealous. I'll be missing the meet as well. I'll be at Cedar Point that weekend. I didnt realize that the American Les Mans series was going to be at Mid-Ohio at the same time . I've heard that is an awesome time. Pretty sure that my girlfriend would sh*t a brick if I even proposed the idea of going to Mid-Ohio instead of Cedar Point . Chicks man...chicks .

Originally Posted by Thegame

I started a list for the 19th, but nobody added to it.

Saturday July 19th, 2008 at approximately 1900 hours at the Waterfront Lowes parking lot.

1. Me
2. Travman
3. Dan I or L or whatever the hell it is
4. (your name here if attending) copy and paste