any ideas for taking care of a rattling heat shield?
Is it ok to remove this shield?

 

take it off

 

im not so sure about that, have gotten anywhere near the exhaust manifold/header after a long drive. its crazy hot. i'd at least keep the ones in place directly under the passenger side. just try tightening up the bolts, that should take care of it.

 

I took the heat shield off my turbo with no effect. That gets much hotter than the exhaust manifold. Take it off, just don't touch it when it's hot.

 

You can take it off and still run fine, however after running with mine off I've noticed a significant increase in underhood temps.

-David Guy

 

how do you take the heat shield off an NA..I cant figure it out

 

Leave it on. It's obviously there for a reason. Removing it will cook all the hoses in that area of the engine bay, cook the passenger engine mount, and probably damage the paint on the inner fender. Oh, and the lower intake will heat up quite nicely...

 

Not disputing your suggestion above, but in a related question...

Now that I have a "non factory" header on my car, am in danger of all of the problems that you mention above?

Should I be trying to make some type of heat shield for the header?

 

Nah. The header heats up a lot less then the big cast-iron manifold.