good source for heat shield material

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:12 pm

I went looking for heat shield material for under bonnet near turbo and found BA Falcons (AU's have it above rear muffler) have a good supply of multi sheet aluminium heat shield around spare wheel well (under car) and under rear hump for exhaust pipe shielding. Cheap (free this time around anyway) and very easy to cut and shape. I added to the turbo shielding where I butchered things to fit my LPG mixer, shielded it further keeping its temps way lower than before. Also shielded up my air filter compartment (L Series spare wheel well) from main engine bay.

Love the stuff

Also be good for shielding speedo cables and clutch cables on turbo conversions

discopotato03 · Post by **discopotato03** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:56 am

Thank you very much , have been wondering where I'd find some of that stuff on the cheap and I know where theres lots a Foulcans !

It works very well , they use it around exhaust manifolds and I've seen Anericans use it around turbos and exhaust manifolds in crowded transverse engine bays .

Great tip , cheers A .

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:47 am

I think from looking but not touching, the BA zaust manifold heatshield is tougher than the underbody stuff and think wreckers are less likely to wanna part with the manifold stuff, but the stuff under the body - only bods like us want it!!