machinehead

That's what I thought. So basically you have to have someone fab one up for you or do it yourself...

CRISPEED I read one of your older posts about Lakewood possibly making a shield, have you heard anything new about that? There are quite a few rotaries below 11.99, so somebody must be making them.

crispeed

You'll have to call Lakewood and see what's the deal with the Bellhousing. I had a couple of friends that had their money returned from Lakewood because they got tired of waiting and Lakewood could not give any definate time for the release of the part. Plus rumor had it that it was SFI approved but it was not actualy SFI tested or legal.
The only other option for a true SFI. legal bellhousing would be to adapt one made for another vechicle.

crispeed

machinehead

Crispeed, if you don't mind me asking, what are you using or going to be using for your car?

crispeed

I'm using a Lakewood bellhousing that was designed to fit a small block Chevy. It's mounted to the motor via a mid plate fitted between the bellhousing and the rear housing. I'm using the 3rd gen auto starter.
Before I was using the factory bellhousing with an adapter plate between it and the tranny.

crispeed

machinehead

Crispeed,
I am trying to visualize this but its a bit fuzzy. So you are saying you have a mid plate with a sb chevy bolt pattern that the Lakewood bellhousing attaches to and that is bolted on the back of the engine... got that part. Then you attached your gearbox to the Lakewood bellhousing and throw out the stock bellhousing? How is the spacing between the gearbox and the flywheel? What about the slave cylinder?
I was thinking about getting a midplate and just cutting a big hole in the back of the lakewood bellhousing so it would slip over the stock gearbox but still cover the stock bellhousing and attach it to the midplate, making it just a scatter shield instead of using it for an actual bell housing. Does that make sense? Or am I making this way too hard?
Thanks,

batmuk

hey has any1 had ther scatter shield/ballistic jacket melt after one afternoons use?????

I thought my rx-7 was on fire

batmuk

batmuk

i wouldnt buy a guru scatter sheild as they melt enough to catch on fire even if your exhaust is wraped ......................

peejay

This is an ancient thread, but Ifeel the need to point out that modifying the scattershield in this manner voids the certification.

Technically, so does running the scattersheild without its front plate (which would be eliminated with an adapter plate).

Trying to use the front plate as an adapter would also void the certification, since you would need to drill new holes and thus modify it.