Heat shield. Science project.
The M35i has a slightly different lower intake box angle-ing than what this heat shield is made for.
I spent hours and hours and a bunch of ingenuity to make it fit.
Fabrication, measuring, cutting, welding (JB style) etc. - oh yeah.
After everything that I had done, I painted the outer and inner with High Temp Black paint. Kinda used that as a primer. Then I added the bedliner paint on top. That shit always works for projects like this and no one would be the wiser.
Looks good IMO. It will look better when it's dry and in the vehicle.