As mentioned earlier, The catalytic converter is designed to collect & concentrate the heat coming out the engine cylinders via the headers, where it concentrates and raises the exhaust gas temperatures from something like 200 F to sometimes well over 800 F - so think about that a bit, & what the implications of that are to your problem.... While ever that catalytic converter is there, you are going to get a reasonable amount of heat radiated just where you tell us you don't want it!! :sour:
Wrapping the catalytic converter would certainly be cheaper than removing it.... But you will still have heat being pumped in from the engine/headers, & heat going out to the exhaust; in effect, all that wrapping will do for you is to contain (& probably increase) the heat radiating from the 'little area' that is the cat that's actually wrapped & force it to radiate (probably even more) heat from each end of the wrapped bit where the heat 'escapes' the wrapping into the unwrapped pipe!! And it will do that at each end too, so leaving the headers bare & wrapping just the cat will also increase the heat radiated under the Tupperware as well as the heat radiated by the riders' foot.... :shocked: Not a great 'solution' at all!!
So if you are serious about reducing the heat radiated from underneath the Spyder & not just moving it a few inches away from where it is now, then wrapping won't be particularly effective unless you wrap the entire exhaust from the cylinder head right down to at the very least the beginning of the 'secondary' muffler (ie the main one out the side of the Spyder) and even then it will only be a marginal change in where the heat radiates out but it will very likely be more heat than was radiated there before - it hasta be, cos you won't be letting any heat be lost further up the pipes towards the cylinder!!
OR, you could fit a Cat Eliminator & massively reduce the heat actually generated in your exhaust pipe which would reduce the heat radiated!! Yeah, it'll be a little more expensive, but it won't be as much mucking around - have you considered the cost/time it'll take to strip the Tupperware & properly wrap the exhaust?? AND, more importantly, it WILL reduce the overall heat generated & radiated out underneath the Spyder/by the riders' foot.
Quite simply, if you Remove the large lump of 'heat generator' that the catalytic converter is then the heat generated is massively reduced; but wrap the exhaust anywhere/in any way & all you are doing is moving where the heat escapes most.... And unless you wrap/treat the entire exhaust so that the only place heat in any significant quantity can escape is out the hole/s at the very end....
Maybe be the solution to your problem is.... if you are keeping the Spyder, fit the cat eliminator; but if you are selling it, don't do anything!!
