Yesterday i was asked to make a write up for the heat shield i made, and here it is. Its pretty crappy but it should give you somewhat of an idea of how to start this project.

http://rapidshare.com/files/27517558...eat_Shield.pdf

 

Had some spare time today so i went and bough some insulating tape for water pipes or something like that and taped the side facing the filter. I also made a bracket to hold it in place, ill get a picture of it later. The shield works like a charm, i drove today and once i got home i popped the hood, the engine bay of course, was extremely hot, however i stuck my hand to the left of the shield and it was slightly warm, the shield workes better than i expected it to

 

Very clean lookin, man. I like!

 

take some high res pics of it installed!

 

I will, i gotta get some new batteries for my camera........Yes you read it right my camera still takes batteries

 

nice write up man, I'll probably make me a heatshield this weekend.
where would i be able to find an aluminum sheet??
...i think theres another heatshield DIY floating around somewhere as well

 

Great job!

Should go under the DIY section.

 

Any store that sells building materials for houses usually has it in the metal pipe section. Atleast thats where i got mine from.

Thanks man!

 

does it have to be aluminum? im sure there are metals with less heat transfer wouldnt you think?

 

Any other metal is fine aslong as it is somewhat shiny because that way some of the geat gets reflected. I chose aluminum because it was easy to cut and bend, not to mention it weighs less than the stock shield on the airbox.