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348 rear heat shield

Nosevi

Nosevi

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Hi all.

Has anyone ever run (or is currently running) without a rear exhaust heat shield? I'm pretty sure I've seen cars like this ie with just the forward heat shield and someone once told me the heat actually escapes far better without the rear heat shield in place. Thoughts?

I know the standard exhaust sits very close to the rear lights and I'm guessing that's what the rear heat shield is there to protect but my little Nouvalari Supersport is much further away from them. If anyone has or is running without the rear heat shield has this caused any problems with the rear lights getting hot?

Reason for the query is my rear heat shield brackets have always been very close to the exhaust mounting bracket and as the system gets hot and expands that gap reduces. For some reason that gap has got fractionally smaller and when things get warm and the exhaust system expands a fraction the two rub and make one hell of a racket. Rear heat shield is currently off for 'modification', just wondering whether to modify and re-fit or just leave off. If it's not required to protect the light clusters with an exhaust much further from them than the standard and all it does it trap heat, sort of wondering what the point of re-fitting is.
 
Having given it some thought I'm thinking it has to be there for a reason and even if the newer sports exhaust is nowhere near as close to the rear lights as the original twin can system I still think I could live to regret removing it. Think I'll just have to modify it so the bracket doesn't rub when the system heats up.

Still interested to hear if anyone runs without it in place though.
 
No heat shield for me. However, the inside of the bumper is lined with self adhesive heat tape,
 
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For now I’ve just modified the heat shield brackets slightly to give more of a gap to the exhaust bracket…… or at least my mate who has a motorbike workshop and runs a racing team has done as he has every tool known to man. Also noticed one of the rivets was lose so he replaced that too.

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Edit: No idea why those pics are sideways but you get the idea :)
 
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