Heat shield? (melting steering rack bushings)

[Gary Huff <scirocco86@home.com>]

So, I have a TT 2.5" downpipe on my 16v car, and converted it to manual steering. Here's the problem, the TT downpipe doesn't have a heatshield. Consequently, it gets hot and starts to melt the passenger side steering rack bushing. Not cool. Is there a manual rack heatshield which I am missing, or should I just build something out of whatever seemingly flexible metal I can find at home depot? Anyone else have this problem? I need to have this car aligned, but I don't want to have it aligned when the rack bushing is slowly melting, and altering steering rack position over time :( I figure maybe if there isn't one available, I could make one out of sheetmetal, or something that would just go directly between the downpipe & bushing, using the upper bushing bolt as a mounting point. Doesn't sound too hard. Is there something I can get that's factory or off another VW which would do the trick?
	-ghuff


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