I'm not crazy about the location of the muffler on the 35 Pickup. I know Tom Wallace did a custom exhaust, but I would like to use what I was given to keep cost down.
If I use the present design, along with the ceramic coating on the underside of the sheet metal. can I wrap the muffler and keep the heat down to an acceptable level?

Or I could move the muffler back by having an extension made after the second pipe from the engine. Not much room for a muffler back there. Might not fit unless I use
another model of muffler.

Then I'm back to a custom setup again. Sigh...

Any ideas that folks have on this?