downpipe fitment

[doom26464]

When i put my downpipe back on when I stuck my engine back in the car I Noticed that it was rather close to the speedo cable. Its pretty much almost touching the cable. I dunno if thats fine or not or if the heat from it will melt it or wreck it. Mabye I put on my speedo cable wrong when re-installing the tranny but I don't think thats it. the downpipe is just some random no name brand one(got it with the car when i bought it like 4 years ago). Anyone else have this problem?

 

[Poodles]

mine is like that as well, but the speedo cable is metal inside of metal with lubricant, and the stock DP was close as well...

 

[nosman4]

I had mine seize up apparantly, because when I bought the car it was broken at the spot it crosses over the downpipe. I am planning to wrap the whole downpipe with exhaust heatwrap so it won't happen again.

 

[3p141592654]

The stock downpipe has a heatshield bolted to it for that very purpose.

The speedo cable should be held with a body clamp against the floor pan in that area.

I fabbed up simple heatshield for my downpipe to protect the speedo cable.