Hi

How important are the heat sheilds on a EJ20T? They look ugly, so Im wondering if I should ditch them. The one near the oil filter looks useful for keeping heat away from the filter and engine mount.

Steve

This is my set up on the MISTRES , its not tubo & I made it .



The turbo heat shelds need to stay !

Ditch the lot of them

I'm not familiar with the EJ20T heat shields. Can't you remake the heat shields with aluminium or something pretty?

I think the only one with experience is Terry. He has an NA EJ22 and he managed to melt his timing belt cover with the radiant heat from his exhaust.

I know another guy who had to move his exhaust and shield his turbo and stuff before the dyno operator would even let the buggy on the dyno, because the dyno operator said the heat under full load would definitely melt and set fire to things.

I have no heat shields on my EJ20T in the back of my fasty and to date have had no problems what so ever.

I'd ditch the heatshields and wrap it with tape instead, the hotter you keep the gases up to the turbo the faster they are and the better your turbo works..
Rich

I've no idea how important they are. I'm also not running them. I've a spare header that I plan to have HPC coated...

Old headers were wrapped, got another set which I kept the stock shields and just wrapped the up pipe. Much of a muchness really as its at the back. You do need to shield that water line that runs above it though.

matt