Floors Get Hot Shoes Melt

[bbejj123]

Im not sure what category this should go under but i think it might be something wrong with the car... i drive my car around town for like 20 minutes or so and the floor starts really heating up...the other day i looked at my shoe and realized it was flat on the back heel and didnt think much of it until i drove my car without shoes on i realized my shoes my be melting from the car... anyone have a problem like this before?


thanks, Brett

[deesz]

do you have a turbo?????????????

[SC_S13]

it may be excess heat from your down pipe/exhaust. you install a aftermarket system of some sort?

[nissan240sxkid]

hahahahaha all the 240 get hot.....I dont have carpet and the exhaust on the other side of the metal makes for great winter driving lol

[2bad240]

cat is stopped up and heating up. i used to work at a exhaust shop i seen this happen a few times.

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You need to slow down! The friction of air molecules on the underside of the car is starting to cause the sheet metal to heat up! Actually maybe your exhaust is too close to the floor. Did you look under the car? LOL

[azndoc]

Ummm yeah this happens to me a lot.

But that's because my interior is stripped so whatever.

I deal with it.

[nissan240sxkid]

You need to slow down! The friction of air molecules on the underside of the car is starting to cause the sheet metal to heat up! Actually maybe your exhaust is too close to the floor. Did you look under the car? LOL

hahahahah thats funny "molecules"

[drift freaq]

transmission tunnels on 240's are notorious heaters.

[brndck]

pshhh. everyone knows molecules arent real.
just kidden. go to your local auto parts store and you can get heat tape (no, not header wrap) that looks like foil on one side, but is stick on the other. cover your floor with it (Inside the car, under the carpet). i did and now no more melty.
ps also check your cat to make sure it isn't plugged or melted.

[silvia-junkie]

you cat is probably cloged i had that happen on a van i was working on. cats were gloing red it was so hot.

transmission tunnels on 240's are notorious heaters.
i know its great on cold days i put my feet up on it to keep warm since my heat doesn't work.

[Matej]

If your exhaust system is stock, you may want to invest in some more free flowing parts, a free flowing cat or a test pipe would probably make the biggest difference

[jskateborders]

happened to me driving cross country... but thats due to stripped interior and a screamer. first time I noticed was when I went to clutch in and I was like wtf...

[acheron]

i had the floor heat up in my 96 s14 (r.i.p.) and i noticed that after i put an hks on it, the floor just got hot and hot, sux driving in the summer without shoes...

[ALEXTHESUS*PECT]

it may be excess heat from your down pipe/exhaust. you install a aftermarket system of some sort?

this is prolly the problem. same problem i had in my old 240. it had no carpet though.

[ripnbst]

My floor in my car gets hot as balls too and its not cuz of a blocked cat, my exhaust smells like Chuck Norris farted. I think its prolly due to the exhaust being real close to the trans. tunnel and the heat getting trapped up in there. However even driving steadily down the highway 70+ it still gets hot and you would think there was enough airflow under there to pull away the heat so idk...

[slow40sx]

transmission tunnels on 240's are notorious heaters.

hell yeah, don't put a cold drink in the cupholder/ash tray slot for more then 10 minutes or it'll be boiling hahaha

[slow40sx]

you cat is probably cloged i had that happen on a van i was working on. cats were gloing red it was so hot.


i know its great on cold days i put my feet up on it to keep warm since my heat doesn't work.

damn can u buy a clogged cat its cold as fuck and i took my blower fans and all that shit out from under the dash, im an idiot :loco: hahaha

[acheron]

i was thinking of putting these thermo tec heat barriers where it gets really hot under the carpet, cuz during some drives it really got boiling through the shoes

i stripped the carpet later on and just never got to putting it in. now the car's gone but i might do that heat barrier on my new 97 s14, if it still encounters the heat problems

[SochBAT]

I fully stripped my coupe, and there was a dickload of heat.

I had spare household carpet laying around, so i made a carpet for my feet. Kept my foot cozy as hell, and always reminds me of home.

[Nikeboy355]

I think the answer is to put the carpet back in...

That is just a hot area on the car... I've heated up a couple of shoes lately as well...

[!Zar!]

Lay out some of that reflective metal tape shit.

Then throw a floor mat over it.

Not like that shit is heavy.

Or be like Matt and rock bathroom mats.

Ung. Shits hot.

haha.

[sfljdmej2]

Lay out some of that reflective metal tape shit.

Then throw a floor mat over it.

Not like that shit is heavy.

Or be like Matt and rock bathroom mats.

Ung. Shits hot.

haha.wtf lmao i would rock those and a shower cap also lol

[krazydriver]

+1 for clogged cat.

I'd stripped my car out and burnt my feet driving around barefoot one day.
I'd known the cat was clogged.... so i smashed out the insides.
It was much cooler after that.

[!Zar!]

Yeah.

He's sexy like that.

So fresh he even stays clean in his car.

[Matej]

Yeah floormats make a big difference when it comes to heat absorption. I'm guessing your car is stripped, no carpet and no tar? Mine is too, but I did keep the floormats, mainly because if I have dirt or water on my soles I don't want it to touch the metal, but they also don't let all of the heat transfer to my sneakers.

[ROUGE180]

I was stripping my car. I felt a deep sinking feeling in my stomach like what the hell are you doing. This is a bad idea. So I did it anyway. Damn.. why are my feet so hot?. Thought nothing of it.. Drove for a couple weeks.. DAMN.. My feet are burning... Noticed my shoe didn't feel the same after a while. Looked at the sole? That ish was melted!!! Now I just put the floor mat back in and it's all good. I am getting carpet back. It SUCKED in the summer. My car would be 10 deg warmer than it was inside. NO AC!!! AAHHHHHHH

[LA_phantom_240]

transmission tunnels on 240's are notorious heaters.

I don't have any problems in my s14... My s13's were motherfuckers when it came to hot ass tranny tunnels though. In fact, I WISH my s14's tranny tunnel would get hot... my blower doesn't work, and my engine temp is too cold in the winter....

[KA-T_240]

My car Used to get pretty hot down there. Even with the carpet. I pulled my carpet up and put some Heat resistant stuff I got from the Dirt track racing store locally. It was made by Cool-It. Its made to put on the inside of the firewall. I coated most of the driverside tranny tunnel as high as I could reach and all they way up behind the petals and other stuff. The whole roll(3 ftx20ft) was like 10lbs tops. And cost $25-30

[ROUGE180]

My car Used to get pretty hot down there. Even with the carpet. I pulled my carpet up and put some Heat resistant stuff I got from the Dirt track racing store locally. It was made by Cool-It. Its made to put on the inside of the firewall. I coated most of the driverside tranny tunnel as high as I could reach and all they way up behind the petals and other stuff. The whole roll(3 ftx20ft) was like 10lbs tops. And cost $25-30


Did that stuff work really well? I'm looking for something like that.

[hitman]

thats how i roll.
lol
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1385/dsc02657rf4.jpg
most recently i put about 10 self tapping screws into it to hold it in place better. also got some cardboard in there under the rug.

[ROUGE180]

thats how i roll.
lol
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1385/dsc02657rf4.jpg
most recently i put about 10 self tapping screws into it to hold it in place better. also got some cardboard in there under the rug.

hahaha NICE!!!! I had towels down there at 1 point aswell:rofl:

[ryan hagen]

i cut my stock carpet up so that i just had the driver and passenger floor areas covered, my addias and globes melted to the contour of the floor.......gotta love the stripped car action, i wonder if there are more stripped 240's out there now than full interior?

[bbejj123]

cat is stopped up and heating up. i used to work at a exhaust shop i seen this happen a few times.

how can i tell the cat is stopped up...i looked under the car and the cat looks relatively new so i hope its not the cat

*edit
i have stock exhaust and no aftermarket engine parts just coilovers and sil front conv...but i have carpet on the ground just the stock stuff =/ i might just put a floor mat or rug ...haha thanks for the advice guys...just was making sure it wasnt out of the ordinary...but ill still check the cat when i get it re welded due to poor welding when the new cat was put on...now it sags but hopefully when rewelded will be nice and tight to the body

[TRU_DAH-V]

I had the same problem in my car it pretty much melted the heal off my shoes and the tar. I just wrapped my header with that thermo wrap stuff and it pretty much did it. or you would get that metal plate that elevates your foot like the rally cars.

[bardabe]

brett, get a fuckin test pipe lol or just gutt the car its not that hard c'mon man.

-Juanito

[bbejj123]

brett, get a fuckin test pipe lol or just gutt the car its not that hard c'mon man.

-Juanito
once i pass smog thats exactly what im gonna do im gonna get rid of my gayass cat and put in a nice test pipe and get new exhaust but i just gotta pass my smog...gayass CA smog

[!Zar!]

Yeah. Gayass clean air requirements.

Who needs to breath when you can have powar!

[Nismosigma]

Hit the cat with like a rubber mallet, if you hear stuff moving around in it that means its done!

[sofo259]

are you running rich ??

sounds like the cat is doing its job, but there is too much unburnt fuel going through the exhaust, and burning in the cat

[deesz]

what about the transfibulator film inbetween the two floor board panels on the driver side, i heard if you pop that film it releases a powder that when gets hot heats up to shoe melting temp's

[bbejj123]

are you running rich ??

sounds like the cat is doing its job, but there is too much unburnt fuel going through the exhaust, and burning in the cat

that may be whats going on cause it smells like im runnin rich and would explain the mileage i get out of a tank haha...ill have to fix that when i tune it up ... but its not like totally melting my shoes to a liquid sticky type but more like making it softer and reforming it

[KiLLeR2001]

Wrap your entire underbody with that heat resistant gold film. BALLER!