Hot Fuel Lines

LivewireBlanco, Im not sure what you were seeing but the carb cool plate is made of a hard fiber heat resistant reflective material. I also already have a thick carb gasket between the carb and plate because of needing clearance for the linkage.
So to all that have offered suggestions and i do appreciate each one, heres where i am at. Its going to be put away for the winter and during this time I plan on removing the intake and heads. This will mean the headers will be dropped which is going to allow me to build guards to cover the lines in the places I can not get to at this time.
The reason for needing to tear it down is to install my set of aluminum edelbrock heads and my edelbrock 2X4 set up.
Hopefully when im done all issues will have gone away!
Thanks Rodney