BigRed

Hi all,

I have a rattle on MY00 exhaust heatshield, driving me nuts, how easy is this to fix??

Thanks for an advice

Lea

Roojai

Sometimes easy, sometimes hard. Can you find which heat shield it is?

RON

Odds on it'll be the up-pipe... and that the most awkward one!!

Dan R

had the same problem with my MY2000turbo. it was the up pipe heat shield on mine. very common according to subaru. i decided on tubular manifolds as i want more power anyway.

BigRed

Gonna give it a go, have to get under the car and have a look,sounds like its coming from the mid area of the system. I did read another thread that these are a common problem, is there a better replacement for them, EG stainless?

Thanks for the help.

4x4chris

ive got the same problem on mine, to fix it would involve taking the manifolds off so i have put it off for months....
not sure what i will do when i actually get it off....
im assume it absolutely has to be there? can it do without??

Roojai

I had one from my up-pipe and replaced it with a newish second hand one - cost 70 quid I think including labour. then I had a nother rattle from a heatshield on the header and all I did with this one was bend it a bit and it was fixed!

Pedroskate

Hi
Its not until you've removed everything with a heatshield on it that you realise how much noise they were responsible for. I've fitted tubular headers and a decat downpipe, all of which is heat wrapped. Previously the buzzing, rattling and banging drove me crazy, I spent hours under it with a hammer, jubilee clips and heat tape to stuff inside the shields. I had believed Id got piston slap on No4 cylinder since I bought the car....even that appears to have gone.
My old heatshields were in an right state, completely rusted away around every lower securing bolt; every securing bolt sheared at the first sign of a spanner. Looking back, if I'd tried to renew the shields it would have been a huge job (I had to dremmel half the (manifold to head) securing nuts to get them off). As a fall back option for mine I've removed every heatshied from the original manifold and wrapped it with heat tape.
But the earlier answer of sourcing a secondhand manifold with good heatshields sounds like the sensible solution.
Regards
Pedro

Gridlock Mikey

Take 'em off and throw them as far as you can into the biggest field.

Took mine off years ago, didn't replace them and the car's been fine and rattle free

Maybe the lack off them increases my bay temperatures by a nano degree which may cost me a micro horse power but i honestly cannot say that there has been a performance loss. I do still use the airbox though and not a cone. Oh and in 4 years, i've not had an engine fire nor has all my engine bay wiring melted and shorted out. It's fine

BigRed

Last day off until the Christmas break so been under the car this morning, tapped and banged the heat shields around a little and found a few stones trapped above the mid section shield, got them out and seems to have stopped for now. The heatshields themselves look pretty good, no corrosion which I was chuffed about.

What has really pissed me off today is some idiot throwing a bag of nails onto the road or out the back of a van, punctured rear offside , 2 nails in it, one on the outside of the tread. Had it repaired but guy at tyre place will not guarantee the repair. Have checked other tyres and upto now have not spotted any other nails, at £105 a tyre (Toyo's) it's beyond a joke.