If I were you, I would sell the heatshield immediately as it is not worth the trouble to install it. Plus since your running the oem header, removing the oem heatshield will cause increased under hood temps thus a performance decrease.

 

But the J's heat sheild won't even fit Toda or Spoon...how would it fit J's?

 

You might need to bend the J's heatshield a little in order to fit.

 

I have put it aside for now, when I get the Comptech header I will try it agin for fitment. I hope it will fit I have polished it to a chrome like finish and with the ceramic coat that I am having done on the Comptech header it will look great

 

The J's heatshield will clear the J's header:

 

Nice

 

Thanks dude

BTW, I read your review of the ETD and heat shield - luckily mine fitted with no problems...

 

The engine temps were ridiculous without the header heat shield (and I have a vented hood). During the summer here in SoCal, I noticed a huge difference.

I made this heat shield in about 15 minutes with some sheet aluminum and many layers of aluminum foil underneath. It works great! I would take the Pepsi challenge any day with an OEM heatshield. Sorry, I don't have a better pic.





-Pete

 

mine fit fine also. My favorite part was cutting a hole in my 300$ titanium ARC heat shield which fit perfect BTW. I'll put a pic or two up tomorrow.

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Alex

 

i now have the j's etd, too..right now i have a stock header(with its own protective cover), can i run without a heatshield ? i just don't want any engine problems..is it recomended i put another engine heatshield like my ARC or oem?..need your guys opinion..