Opti-Shield

[94Blackbird]

You could seriously make this with a pair of shears, a drill and a vise. Depending on material cost they could probably be pumped out for about 5 bucks a piece, and someone could probably make at least 100 in a day if not more once you got a process down. It wouldn't cost very much to ship them either, in a very small box, so call it 7-8 bucks shipped tops. Whoever thinks they are getting 80 bucks for a pieces of bent metal I could do in my garage in 10 minutes is smoking something.

[rdx]

Nice! Thanks for posting up pics of that. What fitting did you use?

That's a great question, My dad had one that worked for me, not sure what's the name of that type of fitting, I think it is 1/4 inch fitting but I'm just guessing, sad I didn't take pictures of it

[rdx]

Couldn't you do this without taking the waterpump apart? It looks like you'd only have to undo the bottom two bolts on that face cover.... would it cause coolant to spill out removing only those two bolts?

I had a hard time understanding your questions cause I didn't now if you were talking about the opti shield or the hose I put in my water pump but I know now you're talking about the shield. My understanding is that yes, you can install with the water pump on the engine

[meissen]

I had a hard time understanding your questions cause I didn't now if you were talking about the opti shield or the hose I put in my water pump but I know now you're talking about the shield. My understanding is that yes, you can install with the water pump on the engine

Sorry for the confusion - this thread is about the opti-shield afterall.

[Blackbird96WS6]

Question for you fabricators out there, what's the best way to bend sheet metal to make one of these at home without the metal breaking into 2 pieces?