just put poly motor mounts on, can I leave the heat shield off with LT's?

did a search and couldn't find anything... it's the drivers side heat shield.

thanks,
TOm

 

I'm sure it won't hurt anything, but why not just put it back. Otherwise it's gonna end up in the trash.

 

Took all of mine off I'm pretty sure... No heat issues

 

thanks... left it off for now - the pass. side headers are barely further from the mount than the drivers... It's a pain to get back on with headers - even though they were unhooked from motor, still in the way, was stuck on ypipe

 

if its a manual, the heat shield is very important

 

why??

 

Are you talking the heat sheild that hooks to the clamshell or the one that goes over the clutch line?

 

Haha, these cars have heat shields? I threw mine out lickity split.

 

For the weight loss right? lol

 

i left mine off cuz i didnt feel like wrestling it back up in there. I wouldnt worry about it.

 

Oh and FWIW i left mine off too. I too didnt wanna wrestle it back up there. I was so sick of looking at it since i found out my k member was bad and had to change it, as soon as they were in i called it a night

 

How does ones K-member go bad?

 

hmm.... mine's an a4... I'm talking about the clamshell heat shield. There isn't one on the pass. side and my headers are barely closer to the mount on the driver's side - I'll post on here if I have a meltdown

 

It goes bad from the previous owner totalling it out. From what i can gather as to how it was damaged it seems to me like he/she pulled out in front of someone and took a really hard hit to the drivers side fender area, which bent the frame 4 inches inboard. The kmember was damaged where the motor mount stand mounts to it. It had a depression i would say about a 1/4 inch deep around the upper forward hole of the stand which tapered off around the stand. Basically it made it to where if you were to get the front hole of the stand and the mount lined up the back would be off by 3/4 of a hole, and vise versa if you lined the back hole up. The way i figured it out was by going to the salvage and looking at some good kmembers. What also should have thrown a flag was the fact that we had to take a torch and a pry bar to get the pass side mount out the clamshell and the drivers side almost fell out of it. Plus the drivers side rubber mount was very deformed. I guess is was my cars last "little" suprise for me since i rebuilt it. How the block didnt get killed is a mystery to me.

 

Because the clutch hydraulic line is allegedly protected from heat by it.