Show me your "Air-Bake" heat shield mods!

Any one have Pics of a Air-Bake cookie sheet used as a Heat shield? wanna get this done before the weekend. needed some Ideas on how to attach it to the body.


Thanks

Rivets.

What is this exactly?

Air-Bake is a brand of cookie sheet that is made from two pieces of metal with an air gap between the pieces, making a pretty efficient thermal barrier. http://prod.wearever.com/wearever/bakeware/wearever/airbake.htm
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&sku=11454054

I made a heat shield out of a regular cookie sheet on my old xj. After being painted black, it looked like a fipk grade intake. To do it though, I had to cut the sheet into a custom piece with a few bends in it. When you cut an air-bake sheet, the two pieces are not going to stay together. The seam is what holds them, right?

I understand, but where woudl you use it? For exhaust and such?

Motorvated said:

I understand, but where woudl you use it? For exhaust and such?

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Exactly. For all those who just have to have those Blowmaster 40s and want to avoid the overheated floorboards that come with them.

I found a better solution. I set my jeep down on a ledge so the muffler had to support the wieght of the jeep. In turn this pushed the floorboard up about 3" right above the muffler....no more hot floor . I promise it was done on purpose.

http://www.go.jeep-xj.info/Exterior.htm

almost to the bottom of the page.

easiest one i saw was simply driving some bolts down through the floor, then space the threads so that you can weld a nut as a stopper half way up the threads. Now drill the air bake, slide the air back up to the stopper nut, then put a lock washer and nut on the other side, tighten and then grind off the extra threads so it doesnt hit the top of your muffler. Kinda like a haning ceiling in your basment.

I just have the optional clamp down flowmaster heat shield on my xj. If your floor is getting really hot you may think of yanking the heat mat from a zj at the pick n pull. I meant to grab one last time at the yard but i was distracted and never went back for it.

sorry i dont have pictures of either, the zj mat seemed highquality though.

an other idea would be the adhesive DEI heat reflective mats http://designengineering.com/products.asp?m=sc&cid=7