i swear ive seen it listed on the fiero store before. now i cant find it. googled it, nothin. searched the forums, nothing. all ive found were the plans to buy to cut your own up and install. might hafta go this route, but i was wanting to see what was available. for those of you that cut your own, what did it cost for the materials? if its a drastice difference in price, then i will go that route.

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First LX9 Fiero GT, 1987 | My Fiero Fuel Economy | MPG Display for OBD I
Youtube Videos of My GT | modernize your fiero with technology!
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem
Fiero's are people too. We pay just as much attention to them, if not more than our loved ones
screw paying those bastards. im not going to become rich by paying for things.....

If you do find some where to get some good material please post a reply with a link to it (or other information about who/where/what).

I'm one of the guys who bought the pattern (at fierosails.com) and cut my own. The pattern cost about $20. Plus I bought a roll of heat shield material and a can of high-temp spray adhesive for about $40 from Summit Racing. I also bought a roll of aluminum tape (about $5-6) from a local hardware store.

With an empty engine bay, it's really easy to do. Just make sure to thoroughly clean the firewall, so the spray adhesive will stick. It's also a good idea to tape down the outside edges of the heat shield, so they don't curl up.

for about 70 bux at the most this can be done vs. the 159 i think i saw at the fierostore. i like i like. i plan on replacing mine and cleaning up the engine bay when i have the engine out and clean up all of my brothers mess. maybe ill even repaint the bay with some truck bed liner. i really want to have a nice looking engine bay.

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First LX9 Fiero GT, 1987 | My Fiero Fuel Economy | MPG Display for OBD I
Youtube Videos of My GT | modernize your fiero with technology!
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem
Fiero's are people too. We pay just as much attention to them, if not more than our loved ones
screw paying those bastards. im not going to become rich by paying for things.....

[This message has been edited by americasfuture2k (edited 08-02-2010).]

quote Originally posted by Blacktree: I'm one of the guys who bought the pattern (at fierosails.com) and cut my own. The pattern cost about $20. Plus I bought a roll of heat shield material and a can of high-temp spray adhesive for about $40 from Summit Racing. I also bought a roll of aluminum tape (about $5-6) from a local hardware store. With an empty engine bay, it's really easy to do. Just make sure to thoroughly clean the firewall, so the spray adhesive will stick. It's also a good idea to tape down the outside edges of the heat shield, so they don't curl up.

I just did this to my 88. I purchased the heat shield insulation from JC Whitney for about 40% of the cost from SummitRacing. I cut the piece in half before I installed it . It made it a lot easier to install. Once the silver tape was added it looked great.

Side by side:


Moved to show the cut:

what is the size of the pieces when its cut in two like that? having two smaller pieces makes the selection for a higher temp tolerable matt selection better. im gonna need the higher heat resisting stuff since i have some high heat plans for this car. no, not it catching on fire

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First LX9 Fiero GT, 1987 | My Fiero Fuel Economy | MPG Display for OBD I
Youtube Videos of My GT | modernize your fiero with technology!
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem
Fiero's are people too. We pay just as much attention to them, if not more than our loved ones
screw paying those bastards. im not going to become rich by paying for things.....

I bought mine from West Coast Fieros, pricey but good.

http://www.westcoastfiero.c...specialty_items.html

Jim

quote Originally posted by americasfuture2k: what is the size of the pieces when its cut in two like that? having two smaller pieces makes the selection for a higher temp tolerable matt selection better. im gonna need the higher heat resisting stuff since i have some high heat plans for this car. no, not it catching on fire

I just went down from an existing cut out. I didn't take any measurement. You can see on the pictures I posted where I made the two piece cut.
Joe

i was wanting to know what your sizes were so i know the right material size to buy. all the very high temp ones ive seen are only available in one size. one side would be plenty long to trim, the other side is too short. but i guess as long as its plenty tall, i could just tape together sections of it length wise. make installation pretty easy.

hows your tape holding up? not peeling yet?

bump

I haven't had any peeling at all. But to be truthfull I haven't driven it yet for the first time either.

hmm well damn lol.

oh man, my fingers think a different thing that what i thought i was i writing. i was thinking of 'hmm... well dang', but my fingers fingers wrote 'well damn'. i bet that middle finger had a big role in this... its charming personality wore off on the other fingers

oh yea, i ordered my pattern the other day and i shipped yesterday. now to choose the right high-temp material.

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Where did you get your pattern? I'm in the process of pulling my engine, and while it's out I'm going to paint and redo all the insulation.

I got mine from WCF. It was supposed to be one sheet but was cut into about 4 pieces. Looks terrible because of all the gaps 4 pieces creates. Better then the stock insulation, but disappointing for the price of paying the extra to have it hacked up... errr, I mean "pre-cut".

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My 87 GT Poly Suspension Upgrade (all pics) thread
Removing the roof panel

Heat shield pattern, $20 plus shipping:

http://fierosails.com/heatshield.html

thats the one i got.

quote Originally posted by Blacktree: I'm one of the guys who bought the pattern (at fierosails.com) and cut my own. The pattern cost about $20. Plus I bought a roll of heat shield material and a can of high-temp spray adhesive for about $40 from Summit Racing. I also bought a roll of aluminum tape (about $5-6) from a local hardware store. With an empty engine bay, it's really easy to do. Just make sure to thoroughly clean the firewall, so the spray adhesive will stick. It's also a good idea to tape down the outside edges of the heat shield, so they don't curl up.

how well will this hold up to a 3800sc and later a turbo 3800?

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I have been running a WCF heatshield with a 3800 SC engine for about 3 years now and it still looks very good.

quote Originally posted by americasfuture2k: how well will this hold up to a 3800sc and later a turbo 3800?

Some other options...

Fiberglass
http://www.mcmaster.com/#th...l-insulation/=bvy072

Ceramic
http://www.mcmaster.com/#th...l-insulation/=bvy0sp

I bought the westcost stuff ( 2 layers of foam, sound layer in the middle, and reflective outer layer). Uncut. I didn't use a pattern (because of the engine swap it wouldn't match anyway). It wasn't tough to do. Its been on there for 4 years now and its still as stuck as the day I put it there. Just make sure the engine bay is super clean (soap and water followed by a can of brake clean and paper towels). Keep a brand new razor blade handy also.

If I were to do it again I would not buy from WCF. I would buy from JC whitney or Amazon and save at least 1/2 on the cost. Either way I'm very happy with how it turned out.

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I ran out of alum heat tape I got from summit. Went to lowes and got a huge (50yd) roll for a dollar less. And no shipping... That's a lot cheaper.