Cold air intake - worth insulating?

Okay, so after recently acquiring a Trophy/TF135 style air cleaner box with dual intakes, my thoughts turned to how to get the best possible 'performance' from it. Obviously, I intend on putting in a performance air filter (undecided on brand, but opinions/suggestions welcomed on that one) but my thoughts then turned to keeping the air coming in to the throttle (which will be upgraded to the 52mm version which I have also bought) as cold as possible.

I plan on rerouting both intake hoses to the NS air scoop, so that should help. I'm aware after reading various threads that this is a very popular thing to do and that the Trophy style box is probably as good as one can get vs. a CAI kit such as a K&N 57i etc.

So assuming I have the best alternative to that, and considering that the engine bay is quite compact and heat is something that could well be reduced, I thought I'd ask here.

I wondered if anyone had done anything to their intake hoses etc to keep out excess engine heat, and if so, what was done and what materials were used. After a bit of reading, it seems that using manifold wrap is not a good idea as that is designed to keep heat IN whereas the goal here is to keep heat OUT.

Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions welcomed. Wether or not it would be worth doing or not, I'm open to any input. I thought I'd ask now as if there is something I could to, I'd prefer to do it with everything out rather than try and work backwards once it's all in place.

Thanks in advance,
Steve.

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Cold air intake - worth insulating?