Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

Ok...heres my dilema

In my car it gets hot as hell...even at night i can feel the heat inside my car from the hot ass exhaust and the hot engine. i dont have any carpet right now because im waiting on my new carpet to come in from one of the fellow hmt members. but in the meen time what do i use to keep the heat down....is there anything that i can put on my floor to keep the heat out?? or to a minimum. please help because its hot a ---- in my car and i dont like driving awhole lot these days.

lewis

p.s. i was thinking of wrapping my entire exhaust in heat wrap but damn that would be a pain. anything for the inside folks ??? like the floor board and the fire wall?

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How about a 7-11 Slurpee? ;)

Honestly, its pretty normal for a floorboard to get hot. I would assume you have already removed the cat convertor right? because all those do is just collect heat. I suppose you could wrap up some of your exhaust in exhaust wrap, but I dont know how much it will affect it. I say, live with it

Jeff

Re:Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

no....the cat is still there...it has its heat shieds but the exhaust manifold heat shield is gone and ever since then my car gets hot inside...its like the heat just travels off that damn thing and just goes inside. and the 7-11 slurpee has already been done over and over ;D i think i will wrap my manifold and the down pipe and the exhaust pipe til i get to the gas tank...that way it will keep the heat down a bit...

would it get cooler once i put the carpet in ???

lewis

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i think ill remove the cat tomarrow, buy some exhaust wrap...get an alignment cause being lowered with a camber i can eat thru tires in about 3 weeks in the front and i think ill install my dual core del sol radiator....not much else to do on a day off.

any other ideas people ??? will the carpet take away most of the heat ??

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you could do some kinda heat shielding material .. dynamat has some for the underside of your hood.. just use it inside... or if you think its heat from the exhaust manifold not the engine drive around with your hood off.

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theres an idea...but i dont think people want to stare at a dirty HF motor...lol...its embarresing enough i have that POS still in there. HEHEHE

Re:Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

hah its ok just put an apc intake on and it will be super horsepower


apc+no hood=200hp hf

Re:Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

there is a neon around here that cruises with no hood and it makes me want to punch the owner in the face and steal their spark plug wires.

my car is hot as ---- too, I have no carpet, I don't think that's what's doing it to me though, it's probably because I live in Las Cruces, NM.

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so u feel hot air? umm u know ur heating thingy or air thingy. click it to recycled air. not the other one. u know what i mean? the one where theres a circle arrow. not the one that the arrow comin from out side. :) hope u get what i just said. lol

Re:Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

learn a lesson from school bus drivers all over the country... just get a couple of 4" diameter fans mounted on dash and roof.

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^ ^ LOL!

uhm.. first off all.. make sure your car is on recycled air. Then make sure your dial is set to cold. and make sure NO vents are open.

Open that little breather vent beside the coin tray while you are driving.

Make a heatshield for that sucker, HMT style!!

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Did you take the heat sheilds off the body of the car? I think carpet will help but you might want to try and put some kind of relective material on the bottom.. Someone suggested the dynomatt stuff.. put it on the bottom of the car so the shiny side will reflect the heat out. You could probably get some of that insulating tape from homeboy depot and do the same thing. They use it for ducting in houses.

Re:Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

roll the ------ window down :P

Beau

Re:Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

lol@beau.

well i do roll my windows down. i have the outside vent thingy by the coin tray open. i have all my vents shut and the temp knob is set on cold. and the vents are set on recycle. all this has been done...the heat mainly comes from the firewall area...and the " bump " in the middle of the car. you know where the shifter is and the ebrake are. The exhaust pipe is under there and alot of heat comes off that too.. No heat shields were there when i got the car. Im going to have a sun roof put in by a respectable place here in town so i know they will do a good job and i cant wait for my ------ carpet but im gonna go see if homedepot has some of that insulating tape today...thats a good idea. thanks but other than that. i still have the heat dilema...but thanks anyways ppl

lewis

Re:Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

Why dont you do like the ricers here and cut holes all over the fenders,doors,roof,and rear quorter panels and bondo in about 50 scoops! I see that here in Sand Deiego all the time .Its hot here!

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i dont think so...lol

ill just wait for my carpet to come in.

ps. i went to home depot and asked about that kind of insulation thingy and they said they have no such thing and if they did it prolly wouldnt work...lazy bastards just didnt wanna help a honda guy out.

lewis

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Well this tape is used for hvac in a house.. it looks kinda like aluminum wrap but its tape. it was just an idea it might not even help. a heat sheild would work.. See if you can find some thing gauge sheet metal.. aluminum if possible. cut it in strips and mount it on the firewal and tunnel with a small gap between it and the floor.. That will absorb some of the heat before it gets to the car..

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that's why you don't tell them you drive a honda. I was at autozone buying a cheap ass tach and the cashier was starting conversation with me, and asked what car I was putting it in, and when I said "civic" he didn't look at me or speak to me again.

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Re:Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

lol@the fan...lol...the fan will just blow around the hot air...i just need to block the heat from the exhaust pipes. im gonna try and hook up some heatshields later on tonight. thanks all

p.s. yeah all the auto part store guys around here in town are rednecks or they just dont like imports...crazy ---- i guess...they guys at napa are pretty cool...they seemed to like my crx.

lewis

Re:Hot in my Car. WHAT TO USE TO KEEP COOL???
 

paint the underside of your car white lol ;D

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Seriously, I was having the same problem in my car (no carpet). I called a local upholstery shop and bought some insulation. It is silver on one side, and green fiber on the other. It killed all the heat, and I put it down with 3m spray adhesive(foil side up) In another car, I used a metallic type water heater blanket... no ----. Both work great. My engine probably generates quite a bit more heat too (5.7L)... and it still worked. Don't get screwed into using dyna-mat if all you want is a heat barrier, dyna-mat is too dense to insulate properly from heat. It actually seems to conduct heat.

Just my 2 cents..

Chad