after saying that i have pictures of my manifold heat shield on this thread, it seams that i may have mentioned what i did at some point and got lost when some threads and posts were lost last year.
anyway the original manifold heat shield was held on with what looked like green wire fence wire but was broken from the mount welded on to the manifold. after i made the decision not to remove the manifold for the main reason of shearing the manifold nuts and studs i had to come up with another way of protecting the brake pipes. we removed a rear silencer heat shield of a 2009 XK, there about 3'x1.5' so they are pretty big and thats when it came to me, i could cut and reshape an old heat shield and get it to fit.
this is the end result
... and this is where i secured it at the bottom. i used the existing fixing for the heat shield that was already secured there
it all looks very crude but the pictures were taken with the service panel removed, with it in place, it looks like it came out of the factory with it fitted.
