Looks like I'm going to order Hooker headers and sidepipes.  My plans are to get them in the ceramic finish, then add perforated stainless steel heat shields produced by a guy I found on the web.  At first I was thinking I would send the heat shields to Jet-Hot and have them coated to exactly match the side pipes.  Then I thought it might look very cool if I could paint the covers gloss black, so they would match the car.  Problem is, since these will be steel mounted directly to the pipes, they will get pretty hot themselves. (I know, sounds contradictory for a heat shield, but I figure the intent is probably to just bring the tempurature down from a third degree burn to a first degree ;-)   Anyway, I have very seen any very high temperature paint in gloss colors and also available in spray bombs (12-16 ounce cans).  Is anyone aware of such a paint being available?  I just don't think engine paint would withstand much more than the approx. 230 degree max that an engine should put out...  Any ideas?

 

Sorry, you guys have been a wealth of info and I have not been nice enought to return the favor and post pics of lasts winter's engine build-up.  I'll try to do that this weekend!