240Z: Competition Mikuni Triple carbs Heatshield

Recently i found that a seller in Japan was selling three of the Sports option / Competition / NISMO heat shields for the Mikuni triple carbs. which is there to prevent heat from the exhaust manifold going to the carbs / intake. The price was super fair and they seemed to be without corrosion, so i bought two of them just to be on the safe side:

The thing with blind online-buy’s is you never really know what you get. In this case they looked good. the silver one had been welded previously, but nothing that can’t be cleaned. The strange thing was however as soon as i touched it, i had silver paint on my fingers. It seems it was just a rattle-can fix done previously. Nevertheless, they’re still both in very usable shape and nothing a bit of cleaning and plating / painting can’t fix. I currently have a set of triple Mikuni 40PHH’s in stock for th eproject, but i have also a set of 44’s in Japan waiting to be shipped with some other parts. so even though it all needs some work, at least i have a complete set now in very restorable condition and that all for a really fair price despite what things are going for today.

Here’s an exceprt from the japanese sports option catalogue showing the heat shield and the two part numbrs. Not sure what the cover is though. prably just some kind of insulating pad that went on the shield? after looking closer to mine, it seems like they have a cracked additional pad layer on it. Will need to figure this out in detail.