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The product in question - TDR Heat Shield

Just wondering if anyone had any experience with these? experiences/recommendations/options
Two specific questions... What's the fit like? and How do they attach?

I think my extractors are cooking my heater hoses... and this heat wave isn't helping one bit
I've explored ceramic coating but it puts my car out of action for too long...
getting the extractors removed...
getting them coated...
getting them installed again...
that and most places that do it are miles away from where I live... unfortunately it's more downtime than I can manage

Sorry, no experience with the TDR heat shield. Another alternative if you're looking for a cheaper option is to grab a sheet of ACL heatshield and do it yourself. I think i paid about $45 at Repco to make my turbo heatshield.

Link>>> http://www.aclperformance.com.au/prod_heatshield.htm

manga blue has one of those, i'm pretty sure.

$160 for THAT?! Go the ACL one as GS stated, easy to cut and shape. NMX516 did one himself. or you can just buy thermal sleeves for the hoses.

i was reading up on this about 2 months ago and the general consensus was it's a good quality product.

there is a flaw with its design though - the shield comes in direct contact with the headers, and the vibration of the headers will eventually wear the inside layer of the foil jacket. there was a customer in the states who said the fibre inside the jacket then caused damage to their headers.

I've used the ACL heat shield and it's great, very easy to work with, two sheets of steel with a ceramic layer between them, coated in aluminium. I have also used TDR products before and found them to be of very high quality. Both would work well.

Ted

PUR157 wrote:Two specific questions... What's the fit like? and How do they attach?

Go to: http://www.trackdogracing.com/website/heat_shields.htm

There's a PDF detailing installation & showing fit.

Thanks for that guys, just the answers I was looking for...!

Looks like tinkering time...
So you can get ACL stuff over the counter at auto parts stores?
I'll have a squizz in the track dog installation for some mounting tips...

But if anyones already gone down this route could you share some photos/tips?

bought mine from here: click

I didn't use it as a manifold shield but an air-filter pod shield. Send a PM to NMX516

PUR157 wrote:Thanks for that guys, just the answers I was looking for...!

Looks like tinkering time...
So you can get ACL stuff over the counter at auto parts stores?
I'll have a squizz in the track dog installation for some mounting tips...

But if anyones already gone down this route could you share some photos/tips?

from memory the TDR PDF includes photos

1red5 wrote:I didn't use it as a manifold shield but an air-filter pod shield. Send a PM to NMX516

Any chance of some pictures 1red5? I've just recently been trying to make a similar shield.

"So you can get ACL stuff over the counter at auto parts stores?"
Repco, there are two sizes affordable and large ($140) but you could make 4 heat shields from the large and 1.5 from the small, go to the ACL web site for measurements.

"But if anyones already gone down this route could you share some photos/tips?"
Like this? It mounts on 2 of two of the studs that hold the extractors on and the large one under the O2 sensor.
Ted.

Jeo wrote:

1red5 wrote:I didn't use it as a manifold shield but an air-filter pod shield. Send a PM to NMX516

Any chance of some pictures 1red5? I've just recently been trying to make a similar shield.

Nothing flash.
If you can imagine the shield being curved in "C" shape

[quote="1red5"][quote="Jeo"]Nothing flash.
If you can imagine the shield being curved in "C" shape[quote]

Legend.
Sorry for the hijack here PUR157, but did you notice any difference?

Jeo wrote:Legend.
Sorry for the hijack here PUR157, but did you notice any difference?

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Butt-dyno doesn't measure a difference, but as for the material itself, it is the coolest (temperature-wise of course) metal component in the engine-bay after a hot drive.

I took a gander at the one in NMX516's car one day after he went for a buzz down to the shops at a dodgy-day, and it was mildly warm.

So whatever the material is exactly made of, and whatever it's internal structure is, it works brilliantly at both reflecting and dissipating heat.