Heat shield rust problem

[ez at nova]

I have teh original shield on my car. It had some rust on it, so I used naval jelly, then buffed the heck out of it and it looked nice. About 6 months later, the rust came back. I repeated the procedure, buffing even more this time. Now, the rust is back again. It must be a moisture magnet from teh superheating, then cooling on summer nights. Anyway, is there anything I can rub or spray on the shield this time to prevent this ugly rust from returning?

 

[brittken]

Paint it.

I painted mine with aluminum colored high heat engine paint. It looks almost factory and will not rust. Check mine out on my web page. You could also have it chromed.

 

[87 WE2]

Sand it down Jeff, and paint it with 1500 flat alluminum VHT paint........Ed

 

[ez at nova]

I guess I will try painting it. I actually had it painted first, before polishing...I forgot. But, the high-temp aluminum style paint I used was sort of "gritty" in texture and it looked odd. I prefer the medium shine look of the polished metal, and I'm not a huge fan of the bling bling chrome, especially not yet, since the rest of my engine compartment looks like it has dirt from 1987.

Hey Ed, how much $ to get my engine bay looking like yours!? HA!

 

[87 WE2]

$50 an hour Jeff.............. Its alot of work, maily its just really time consuming I spent 2-3 months doing my engine and it looked near to what yours does. If you are serious about it maybe when I get my T-Type finished like around March-April we can work something out. Let me know.............Ed

 

[ez at nova]

Sounds good. If we can get it cleaned up in about 4 hours, I can afford it!
We'll see where things are this spring when you're finished with your car. I'm sure there are a lot of things I can clean up under the hood. It just makes me nervous disconnecting too many things.
Speaking of spring, I can't help but wonder about the condition of my valve springs. We should probably check that out then too. I guess that would be a good time to clean up the valve covers and all that oil gunk from that bad PCV.
Oh well, enough hijacking of my own thread.

 

[87 WE2]

We can check them out then. Like I said its not hard to do, just time consumeing we could do it in a resonable amout of time if we dont go completely nuts like I did. I'll let you know when I get the t-type done & out of my bay at the shop then we can pull yours in there for the day & clean it up.

 

[87 WE2]

Jeff, just buy this its easyier...........

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2452753326&category=33742

 

[rgs455]

Had mine nickel plated for $75. Has that polished sheen look unlike chrome. Bead blasted the bolts and applied high temp clear on them. Looks great!