I recently installed heat shielding on my 1500 C with 6 into 6 pipes. The shielding starts where headers 5 and 6 exit the heads and runs between my feet and the header pipes back as far as the foot pegs. Initially I had shielding aft of the foot pegs to the back of my foot. Those very ugly rear sections were eliminated during testing as I found no perceptible benefit. I was also running wings.
On my setup, I found the heat shielding to be even more beneficial than wings, and less of a degrade to the look of the motorcycle. Living in Texas I will run with both wings and heat shields in the Summer and heat shields year round as my installation does not allow for easy remove and reinstall without beating up the step flashing covers. I was able to ride down the highway on a 100 degree day with my feet on the OEM pegs without any need to use highway pegs. After driving down the highway at 75 mph with an ambient temperature of 86 degrees I measured the following with the engine running: Header temperature 209 degrees, Upper head temperature 160 degrees, shield temperature 101 degrees. You can actually pull over and touch the metal right around your feet with your finger. All the work is done by 1/2" thick muffler packing installed in the area described above. The step flashing covering without packing provides no perceptible benefit.
An interesting way to test the concept would be to install 1/2" thick muffler packing on one side to do a hot foot cold foot comparison. At this point I could likely bring my step flashing covers to a fab shop if I really wanted black painted steel covers and the steel covers to a finishing shop if I wanted chrome.
The pictures of my finished shields follow.
