Passenger floor pan heat shield

[Meatwad]

Im working on replacing the floor pans in my square body. Does this heat shield serve a critical purpose for anything? Im not making a show truck or anything nor am I restoring it to be original. Contemplating just cutting it off and leaving it off

 

[PrairieDrifter]

It looks home made. Either way chop it off!

 

[TotalyHucked]

That heat shield just protects the firewall/inside the truck from the heat of the factory manifold. It gets real close to the firewall there. If you're using headers or different manifolds that don't get close to the firewall, get rid of it