[doc] Heat Sheild under the CAT

["Paul" <willinot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

 

I was driving up the road today and all of a sudden noticed smoke coming out
from my engine bay.  As you can imagine I was not impressed and quickly
pulled over to the hard shoulder to investigate.

 

It turned out that the heat shield under the cat had became soaked (it was
raining quite heavily and the roads were drenched) and had started to
disintegrate and seemed to be burning oil off it or something.  There does
not appear to be any oil leaks (checked levels after car was sitting for
five hours and everything seemed ok, also had no oil on garage floor) so not
sure if it was just a build up over the years that when the shield broke
down caused it to burn off.

 

The car is running of a cylinder up till about 4000revs but im putting that
down to not having a coil cover and the dampness (correct me if im wrong)
cos I replaced all the HT leads and plugs and the coil.

 

My main query is, do I need that heat shield and if I do, could I do without
it if I installed the cat bypass pipe.

 

Cheers.

 

Paul

 

Ps:

 

She may RUN like a dog when its wet but she DRIVES like a dream when coming
off roundabouts ? :-) .

 

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From: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Martin Gutkowski - DMC Ltd
Sent: 15 May 2006 23:08
To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [doc] NO REVERSE LIGHT

 

That's slightly different.The DeLorean only needs foglights over here 
because it was built after July 1980 for example. We don't need a 
catalytic converter, but modern cars do, etc etc.

Martin

Mike Sumner wrote:

> 
>  When you think about it a lot of old cars from the 60s and such like
don't actually have reversing lights and I don't think they have ever been
told to modify them to incorporate them nowadays.
>   
>  Regards,
>   
>  Mike Sumner - 178
>




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