On the home stretch of rebuilding my engine after replacing my head gaskets and I can't for the life of me remember or figure out where this heat shield goes!
I know it must belong on one of the exhaust manifolds but I can't figure out if it'* the front or rear one and where or how it attaches.
Have looked everywhere online, watched YouTube tutorials, the whole 9 and nothing shows me where this thing might have come from. Please help!!!

It goes right there.

Wait, no it doesn't.

It'* a bush part. LOL. Gimme a minute, I'll figure it out.

Lol, thanks so much for trying! When I first saw the pic you posted, I was gonna say that there is actually a different heat shield that goes there, but looks like you figured out the same thing.
Either way, the pic you posted does tell me it doesn't look like it goes on the back, so at least there'* that, lol!

How about the starter? I know some of them have heat shields on them.

Nope, not there either. We already reinstalled the heat shield for the starter.
We did check, though, just to be sure. Doesn't look like it goes anywhere around there, though.

I've scoured hundreds of Google images, even our own images here on the forum and for the life of me, I cannot find what this thing is. I know I've seen it before. It'* probably one of those things that we throw out because it gets in our way and we don't really see a use for it. (bush part)

Lol, got it. Yeah, we're thinking we're gonna just put the car back together without it and hope we're good.
Thank you so much for helping out, though! Knowing at least one other car person looked and couldn't find it either definitely helps put our minds a bit at ease.

And thankfully, we don't even have to take the car completely back apart to put it where it goes, lol.

Lower left side, on the bottom of the exhaust manifold.