So I was a lil bored today, and wanted to do something to my car, I initially started wet sanding my heat shield so that I could polish it, but quickly lost intrest with it....

Then I decided to attempt and polish my stock header, so here it is...

after about 30mins of wet sanding





thought it looked pretty good.

and this is about 15mins of polishing



I think i will polish it a lil more tomorrow, but all in all I think it turned out great.

 

looks good, what grit of sandpaper and what polish?

 

i was using 120 grit sand paper lmao, and i used mothers mag and aluminum polish

 

Good job with the polishing!

This might be a stupid question but, is the heat shield necessary? For example, will anything be damaged without it?

 

Naw I dont think anything will be damaged.

 

it wont "shield the heat" anymore, hence the name. nothing major though, just a hot a$$ engine bay.

 

I think it's more of a safety thing rather than actually cooling down your engine bay since it keeps all the heat closer to the motor anyhow If you have a carbon fiber hood, it would be ideal to keep it so it doesn't affect it, but with a metal hood, no worries.

 

I see. Thanks for the replies guys.

 

wat if you have a cold air intake... would it be beneficial to keep this on so that the hotter air doesnt spread throughout your engine bay?

 

no you wont notice any difference.

personally i think its there to hide the ugly header lol. idk if you ever touched a heat shield.... but it doesnt really shield any heat, that **** is HOT

 

hahah thats why that lil hand sign with the do not touch indication is there dave haha

 

A real cold air intake doesn't pull air from inside the engine compartment

 

Looks good. I wanted to do the same thing but I did my heat shield instead. I didn't know how it would look, but it looks good.

 

looks good man

 

im in the process of doing mine now. i thought i was going to have to use all sorts of different grits like i did for my valve cover.
but after using 320 grit i can easily see my reflection.
makes my life easier...