Hey guys... i get a lot of heat near my feet... so the pedal area... is this common for FD's? Is there a way to not make it as hot lol?

Dennis,

 

if it's that bad it might be a sign that you have some sort of problem, maybe you're missing some heat shielding in the engine bay or something. otherwise, you can add some insulation along the firewall and floor inside the cabin. i'm sure someone on here can recommend something more specific.

 

Is it comming out of the vents or anything? My car randomly blasts like 30 secs of hot air my way during summertime, even with the A/C. If it is comming out of the vents try turning the **** to the defroster and it should go away.

 

Are you RHD???? If so then yes the pedal area can get pretty hot even when everything is working properly....you may want to check to make sure you don't have plugged up cat though. If your car is LHD then no there shouldn't be very much heat down there.
I ended up coating the tunnel and right side floor with some adhesive backed heatsheild from BSR products in addition to the factory sheilding and this has helped a lot with the floor temp on the right side.

 

Wrap your downpipe in header wrap. That will help get heat out of the engine bay and decrease the heat radiated to the passenger compartment through the fire wall. If you are running a mid pipe, wrap that too.

Check your cat to make sure its not clogged. Unbolt the front bolts where it connects to the down pipe and shine a flash light in there. If it looks like a clogged shower drain, its clogged and generating a lot of heat. If it looks like mesh, you're OK.

Check your coolant temps to make sure your car is running correctly.

Without knowing your mods, install the FC fan sensor to turn the fans on earlier (search for post by Dale Clark).

Lastly, DEI makes some adhesive heat shields that you can attach to the fire wall to help keep some of that heat out of the interior. I also used some on the opening around the shifter.

 

My FD is RHD... My car is stock besides an after market exhaust.

 

perhads some heat sheilding was removed when exhaust was installed.

i also have RHD and don't have much of a problem

 

Okay I tried searching for it right now but to no avail... Anyways, there was a great topic titled "How HOT is your car" or something very similar on this forum and that should answer your question as well tell how to reduce the heat. I may have it bookmarked it at home, if I do, I will post it if someone else doesnt before then.

 

Thanks buzen! Thanks guys! For help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Assuming EURO-spec cars came with a pre-cat and it's still there, you should replace it with a downpipe. As mentioned earlier you can wrap the downpipe with header-wrap. It's inexpensive (About $40 a roll here in the states) and is VERY effective. Added bonus is the overall reduction in underhood temps (better for plastic and vacuum lines) and radiated heat to your transmission. You should also see an nice bump in performance, with quicker spooling. Heat-coating is also very good and effective, but a little pricier. Having both might be close to ideal.

 

not that it helps you but ive had people with flip flops take them off in my pass seat and said that it was almost too hot to put their feet down...lol....i have a full 3" catless exhaust......guess ill look into heat wrapping the pipes. if you figure it out please share.

 

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