Burnt shifter cable today

Bad Sport said
Not sure how that particular cable routes, I like my Cheetah because of the cable routing.

When I had my Hurst Promatic in the car, I went to NAPA and bought some of that high heat silcone hose and slid that over the cable where it was close to the exhaust, no problems.

It's pricey, about a 6 bucks a foot, but 3 feet should be enough. The guy at the parts store said it wouldn't burn, and I thought, yeah right. I guarantee you it won't burn, when I brought it home I tried burning the end with my oxy acetylene torch and no dice.

I also have a short piece on my starter cable where it is close to the header.

I just pick some of that up. I won't mention the name of United Speed World because they ripped me off on a set of heads. I have limited knowledge, I'm. Not a Machinist. But I I've been doing this for a while and I'm not a dumbass. So,if you're going to magnaflux a set of heads, put new valve stem seals, do a valve job and charge someone 4 hundred bucks for it, when you get your heads back and you decide to buy your own valve spring compressor and do your own valve spring upgrade (once you choose a cam) and you start taking stuff apart, you see Carbon on the valves, and old valve seals it makes you wonder... sorry, I got off topic there, (over 10 years ago, still pissed, I guess,,) anyhow I got some collector gaskets and some of that but I remember reading a post by someone that said, they even though they used that silicone wrap, it burned the cable right through that, but didn't damage the wrap