I am 90% (i hope) finished with my project car. Not a Ford... but im having issues im sure people here have experienced and can help me with.

I am having problems with the amount of heat coming off my stainless exhaust manifold. Problem is its up high compared to the original which only came up half way to the block. The car was similar to an RST in layout originally, but now the turbos more top right instead of bottom left.

The air comes off the manifold, cooks my rocker box and worse still heats the inlet manifold right up. Not really going to do much good to my ACT's.

Anyone got any experience of heat wrap and how good is it? I have a pack and tried it on a rad pipe and whilst it works perhaps i was expecting too much. Also its a bit annoying I am supposed to paint it since im not taking the manifold off.

Also anyone know somewhere (pref local to essex) that makes custom heatshields?

Any other ideas or suggestions to stop the heat being in all the wrong places!

Thanks

Paul