I'd read everything about header wrap before I wrapped my headers but I did it anyway.
Of course I swaintech'd my headers first and then wrapped them on top of that... and even with what people claim is about the best header wrap you can get the wrap is still blazing hot after a short period of running... nothing's keeping those 1600 deg temps in I guess.. silly turbo cars.
And just to bring up powdered metal rods.. I did some work for a company that makes a ton of powdered metal rods and they were starting production for an aftermarket company for 350 chevy's I think in the 600-800 hp range. Saying powdered metal rods are junk is just silly.. they can control the metalurgy so closely I can imagine powdered metal being the way to go.
OK.. enough rambling off topic.. nobody listens to me anyway.