I worked on my heat shield for a while today while I was trying to avoid grading my final exams. No more cardboard template. I still have to add the mounting tabs on the bottom/back. Still deciding on how to finish it. What do you think? Paint, sanded to raw aluminum, or leave it?

 

Finished up the mounting brackets for the heat shield today. Still undecided on if I want to paint it. I sanded out the back side and I kind of like the look. Now I want to do some intake air temp logs with and without to see if I actually made any improvement. Anyway, here are the pics.

 

Looks good!

My BlinkTek 1.8T heat shield has an adhesive-backed tape or something on the engine side which I'm assuming is supposed to be for insulation purposes. Not quite sure what it is or where to buy it but maybe something like that would work for you too?

 

Yeah. I should look into some sort of insulation to add. I haven't tried to do any logging yet, but after driving around for a bit, it was pretty hot.