tom94RX-7

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Thanks to this thread I made a turbo heat shield from a 6 quart stainless steel pot from target. It's a little big but it worked good, see pics, it was the best thing I could find, I also checked Walmart, lowes and kmart, and looked everywhere including dog bowls lol. With this 1.32 a/r turbine housing there is even less space between it and my lower intake manifold so I could not fit my turbo heat blanket. I also had to rotate the heater hose pipe so it sits down below the turbo now, this was easy I didn't even have to remove the hoses, just the hose clamps, and I made a long bracket to secure it. I have good heat reflective tape on the lim and I might also try to make a heat shield for that and I need to put my exhaust wrap on the new 4" downpipe.

speedjunkie

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Haha I forgot all about this. I never did try this because I couldn't find a pot the right size.

1.32 turbine? That's pretty large.

tom94RX-7

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Yep, it feels the same on the street as my .96 undivided. Ya you might have to use something different than a pot to make a smaller one.

tom94RX-7

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And here is the heat shield I just made for the lim. It's a thin piece I was using to make a template, then I just decided to use it instead of making a thicker one which would be alot harder, I could do that later, this one works to block some heat as I confirmed with my little torch .

And earlier I tested out the stainless steel pot turbo heat shield and it works great . And here is some more pics. Exhaust wrap going on the 4" custom downpipe next.

On a side note, my new setup (with the divided 1.32 a/r turbine housing, the turbo heat shield and 4" downpipe and midpipe to my greddy 3" catback) has better boost response and hits 10 psi of boost significantly quicker (about 300-400 rpms) than it did when I had a open undivided .96 a/r turbine housing with a heat blanket and 3" exhaust. Once I get a 4" catback made for it or just remove the 3" catback, it should be even better.

bigdv519

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3 years later and I'm barely seeing this. Great ingenuity Viking.

So how is the heat shield holding up now? Give us an update.

speedjunkie

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^If you're asking Viking, I'm pretty sure he sold that FD and bought the NSX in his avatar.

bigdv519

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Ahhh I forgot he sold it...hmmmm...maybe he will still chime in and let us know how it performed.

RigoFD

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Excellent idea, that's called using your head 8)