Did your cutout do this??
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Did your cutout do this?? I was trying to find out if anyone had this problem........after i got my cutout put on last week my car was making a weird noise when i hit the gas. I jacked the car up today and found out that the rattling noise is the big metal protection thing that mounts to the bottom of the car. It keeps the exhaust away from the car. If anyone had this problem did you fix it? and How?
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Are you talking about the heat shield? Is it hitting the cutout? You can bend the hell out of it if if it will help. You could also jam some steel wool or something in behind it to absorb the vibrations.
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Originally Posted by TheBlurLS1
Are you talking about the heat shield? Is it hitting the cutout? You can bend the hell out of it if if it will help. You could also jam some steel wool or something in behind it to absorb the vibrations.
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Originally Posted by Starz T/A 17
you could position the cutout lower so it wont hit, or bend the headshield or I know alot of people just take the headshield off
Well the heatshield is there for a purpose/reason .. I bent mine out of the way, all my heat shields started rattling from the Longtubes/cutout setup ha ha .. so i had to either bend mine, or tighten them better.. ...
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Originally Posted by Lethal_Ws6
Well the heatshield is there for a purpose/reason .. I bent mine out of the way, all my heat shields started rattling from the Longtubes/cutout setup ha ha .. so i had to either bend mine, or tighten them better.. ...
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I think im going to tighten everything first........but did you bend it up towards the bottom of the car?
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The only heat shield I have on mine is the driver's front; the one protecting the fuel lines. Don't have any problems without them
Originally Posted by Z28/2002
The only heat shield I have on mine is the driver's front; the one protecting the fuel lines. Don't have any problems without them
Same here, haven't had any other heat shields on there for several years.
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Originally Posted by Z28/2002
The only heat shield I have on mine is the driver's front; the one protecting the fuel lines. Don't have any problems without them
I ripped that heat shield off a while ago when I was trying to track down a rattle and never put it back on. The girlfriend has told me that the floorboard sometimes gets a little warm during spirited driving but she never considered it hot. So I wouldn't worry about ripping that mother off. As long as you're cutout isn't pointing towards the car.
