hey guys i remember a while back BigBaz saying his gearbox was real hot, and it radiated through the gear lever... well its the same in my car, and it also radiates massivly through the footweels, gets quiet uncomfortable in the hot whether with my cc been broken... is this normal? could i go underneath and put in like aluminium or cf heat sheilding to stop it or what? how many other people got the same problem?
You sure its not heat radiating off the turbos (assuming you have turbos)? Turbo heat is really accentuated on hot days.
turbo heat could explain some in the footweel... but doesnt explain the stuff in the gear lever, maybe the heat sheilding was removed and not replaced?
put everything back in there when i last touched it, and didnt look like anyone had been down there before
Everyone blaims the poor gearbox... It's the exhaust, the cat's are directly below the shifter and they get very hot. This will be worse if the engine runs overly rich. Every Z I have been in is hot in the footwell/shifter area
ye wise man once said those without gearbox boots get cooked legs.. id be willing 2 bet u dont have the upper or lower boots on
When I upgraded my dump/front pipes we heat wrapped everything back to the cats -could be that your dumps are getting hot and heating up the gearbox?
mine gets warm as well but its been like that since i bought her. i don't worry about it too much as the car runs beautifully (touches wood). plus i've still got my aircon.
Yeah my gear lever gets pretty warm and My car is running super rich. Can any exhaust shop do heat wrapping? About how much would you pay to have it wrapped for both engine pipes and cats? I do like the look of a heat wrapped exhaust. Looks very racey. And will protect the cats abit from scrapes.
Ive experenced the same thing with mine, not so much from the gear leaver tho, more from the side part where your knee lies.
