My First Fabrication...(heat-shield)

[greenmachine97]

This is my first time that I have ever worked with sheet metal, or even fabricated anything before. I have to give credit to turbo1307 for helping me with the dimensions. *thanks alot*
So here it is, check it out:

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/\/\/\/\/\/\ this was taken before i cleaned up the spot welds.

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I still need to polish it up alot, i dont have any polish at my house, so i will probaly do that tommorrow.
Let me know what you think.

 

[greenmachine97]

Originally posted by Korndogg


why?.. just trying to go for a clean look? or does the heat shield really do much?.. heh..

thanks

well, i personally just did it for a clean look and to say i did. i wanted to start fabricating pieces for my car, and figured that a heatshield would be a nice and easy place to start! it might trap more heat than the stock one did, i dont know, but i do know that it looks much better and i have alot more pride in my car; in the fact that i made that piece from scratch all by myself. which is alot for me to say, considering a little over a year ago, i was paying someone to put spark plugs in my prelude. so i have come a long ways in my mechanical abilities in the past year or so. it makes me feel good. thanks

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by Korndogg
here's a good way to sound dumb:

why?.. just trying to go for a clean look? or does the heat shield really do much?.. heh..

On a turbo motor, a heat shield does quite a lot. Properly built as a heat shield, the inside should be polished, and the top side flat black. Notice your underhood pad is shiny on the side facing the heat.

my 1.8 eclipse didn't have one, and i kinda liked it that way....

Those don't tend to melt fans, either.

 

[Korndogg]

Originally posted by greenmachine97
well, i personally just did it for a clean look and to say i did. i wanted to start fabricating pieces for my car, and figured that a heatshield would be a nice and easy place to start! it might trap more heat than the stock one did, i dont know, but i do know that it looks much better and i have alot more pride in my car; in the fact that i made that piece from scratch all by myself. which is alot for me to say, considering a little over a year ago, i was paying someone to put spark plugs in my prelude. so i have come a long ways in my mechanical abilities in the past year or so. it makes me feel good. thanks

yeah, that's cool. i know exactly how you feel i was just wonderin if i was missing something



also.. defiant:
yes, i have noticed the shiny shit on my hood.. my assumption was that it was to try to keep the heat from affecting the paint... you hardly ever see original paint on a 1G that doesn't have a messed up hood..

so you're saying that if i were to pull the heatshield off of my car (for some reason..), i could melt my fan shroud?
thanks

 

[eclipsed95]

That looks great

 

[InnerCircleVP]

Anybody making these on the side, I need to clean up my bay a little more and I don't want to powder coat. Thanks, Mike

 

[VRMAN]

Yes, this guy makes polished real nice ones:

858-842-1577

Email (his wife's) [email protected]

picking mine up today