I took a piece of moroso spark plug wire covering and slid the wire through that. So far so good. Maybe look at dei to see if they have anything, i know they make a lot of heat shield stuff
yea that was another idea i had... i find it funny when the exhaust came out the bottom on the race car we didnt have an issue with the big ass monster exhaust it had yet my car with the 1 5/8" tubes is close as
Or you can use a smaller starter off a explorer. Just jumper the solenoid at the starter. I had a problem with the ears breaking off on the factory ones the explorer is much stouter.
I hear a lot of people run mini starters with long tubes. 1992 & up Mustangs came from the factory with the "mini" starter. Get you a starter from a 92'-93' Mustang, and be good to go...
I switched to the mini starter for this reason, but you'll still want to protect your wires. As I learned recently, wrapping the headers causes them to rust out.