hey, with the pacesetter ss, the instructions note that if the setting is real short, then you may have to cut a hole in the heat shield, have any of you guys had to do this?

no hole required. just bend it a little and it'll clear the shifter.

Ric

Teal97
no hole required. just bend it a little and it'll clear the shifter.

Well my expirience I adjusted mine to the shortest throw possible with threads on both sides of the ball.
I talked to people on here and they said to bend the heat shield a little and it would work.
Well I bent it so much that it was loosing it's origial form so I stopped. In fact my shifter has about a inch between the cat and it so judge for yourself. My heatshield is in the garage and not on my car.

I put the heat shield on the saddle of my floor jack and used a rubber mallet to pound a 'dent' into it right where the shifter would hit. Made a nice round pocket and didn't deform the whole shield.


FWIW, my garage floor jack is a full size jack, not a mini so the saddle cup is pretty big (about 6" round).

Probedude
I put the heat shield on the saddle of my floor jack and used a rubber mallet to pound a 'dent' into it right where the shifter would hit. Made a nice round pocket and didn't deform the whole shield.

Humm this has never made any sense. I took the heatshield and hammered and hammered till it was about to get too thin.
I took the shifter and moved it around several times to get a good feel of what area of the shield needed to be worked on . Well it was a nice area. probably the size of a baseball and like I said in the previuos statement the bottom of the shifter is like a Inch from touching my Cat.??? Maybe Pace Setter was a freak of production, not bearing any kind of consistancy with other SS for our cars.