I havent driven my car alot, about 100 miles or so since getting it, its a long story as to why, havent gotten the tiltle yet, etc (one of those sad ebay tales, I know, I know).

Anyway, I drove it about 1/2 hour a couple nights ago and dropped something in between the drivers seat and transmission tunnel. When I reached down to get it, the side of the seat bottom was hotter than you know what. The carpet on the tunnel was also hot, but not as much so. The passenger side was warm at best. I am wondering if this is from the exhaust running down that side? Any thoughts? Am I missing a heat shield or something? I looked underneath and saw what appeared to be a shield on the pipe coming off the header but it stopped short of the tunnel. I was thinking maybe pulling up the seats and putting the insulation blanket or dynamat or something down...any suggestions/comments are appreciated.

There is a rather large heat shield on the California cars right above the catalytic converter basically right under the drivers seat. If that's missing, the floor and bottom of the seat would definately get hot. I don't know if your car is a former Cali car but if it is it would also have a warning light to the left of the map light that says "FLOOR TEMP". But even the non Cal cars have a smaller heat shield in that area. It almost sounds like you have a California car with the shield missing form the level of heat you describe. If that's the case I'd try to find the shield rather than insulating the car on the inside.

Thanks for the reply. I dont think it is a Cali car, I didnt see the floor temp warning light. I will look into some sort of shield. I appreciate the response, I have read many of your posts on here using searches and you are a wealth of knowledge!