i need help my bumper is melting
11-04-03, 11:20 PM
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i need help my bumper is melting
my bumper is melting cuz of the exhaust is either touching it or its getting tooo damn hot and i was wondering if you guys would know where i can find a patch to put over the bumper
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11-04-03, 11:41 PM
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haha, mine was doing the same thing. Goto the auto store and buy some exhaust turn downs. just a pipe that diverts exhaust downward toward the ground. Install them. Then pull downward on your exhaust mounts and try to get the exhuast to drop a quarter inch away from the bumper.
Mine started to melt too, but its cause i had a ghetto exhaust. I got pissed and now I have no exhaust. But thats ok, because I have no transmission either. lol
Mine started to melt too, but its cause i had a ghetto exhaust. I got pissed and now I have no exhaust. But thats ok, because I have no transmission either. lol
11-04-03, 11:45 PM
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First, is the tailpipe touching the bumper? Then the exhaust system should be checked. Maybe you backed into something and bent the tailpipe(s). If so bend them back down.
If it is just heat from the exhaust gasses, how well is the car running? Maybe it needs a tune-up and some fuel system maintenance.
You could also use this old school trick. I haven't seen it in a while but Trans-Am, IMSA, and SCCA guys used to cut aluminum or stainless steel sheet into heat shields and rivet it on rockers or bumpers above exhaust pipes.
If it is just heat from the exhaust gasses, how well is the car running? Maybe it needs a tune-up and some fuel system maintenance.
You could also use this old school trick. I haven't seen it in a while but Trans-Am, IMSA, and SCCA guys used to cut aluminum or stainless steel sheet into heat shields and rivet it on rockers or bumpers above exhaust pipes.
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11-05-03, 06:19 PM
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Well I've seen them before on RX-7's. Basically it's just a curved piece of metal that is clamped or bolted on to the bumper somehow. I always thought it was to keep the flames from cooking the paint on the bumper.
11-05-03, 07:19 PM
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Originally posted by 5 point whoa
how did they make them, it was just sheet metal??
how did they make them, it was just sheet metal??
You could use self-tapping screws to save on the drilling and riveting...
or, you could use that self-adhesive heat shield sound insulator stuff people use in the cockpit and around speaker boxes.
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