When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Have the headers ceramic coated if they aren't already. It's ASTOUNDING how much less heat gets out with that in effect.
Wouldn't be too hard to take a piece of sheet metal, make 2 tabs, bend them up at 90°, wrap it around the cyl, and bolt with the hardware that's already there.
Already coated, my last ones were coated and I thoroughly noticed less heat from them, the coatings are fantastic!
love the idea about bending tabs on a piece of metal, I was over thinking it with the Amazon rabbit hole of wraps and other mystery heat shielding products.
Originally Posted by sofakingdom
Have the headers ceramic coated if they aren't already. It's ASTOUNDING how much less heat gets out with that in effect.
Wouldn't be too hard to take a piece of sheet metal, make 2 tabs, bend them up at 90°, wrap it around the cyl, and bolt with the hardware that's already there.
#2 is essentially what a factory one is. Although I seem to recall that an actual factory one didn't fit on the T-56 slave for some reason butt I haven't looked at mine lately to see if I left it there after the swap.
On 2nd thought, the reason the factory T-5 heat shield couldn't be used, was because the "nuts" that the bolts holding on the cylinder went into, were part of it. The T-5 bolts went through the BH from the front, then through the SC, and threaded into the heat shield. The T-56 SC bolts are longer, and screw into the BH from behind, through the SC and spacer. So it was fundamentally incompatible.
Although I seem to recall that an actual factory one didn't fit on the T-56 slave for some reason butt I haven't looked at mine lately to see if I left it there after the swap. 
