We lifted the car up and examined the situation. I didn't have much time to work on the car and had to come up with a quick solution that didn't involve ordering parts.
The heatshield sits between the exhaust pipe and the tank with not a lot of space between them. It is held in place with 3 rubber mounted M6 studs. Two of them were rusted off, and the remaining one acted as a nice pivot point, so that the back end of the heat shield was able to nicely dangle on the ground.
Instead of messing with those studs I decided to attach the heat shiel to the pipe instead, and it worked out fine.
I had two 2 1/8" exhaust clamps that fit nicely around the exhaust pipe. After loosely mounting them I marked the hole pattern of the clamps on the heat shield while holding it roughly in the same position. Then I drilled generous thru holes in the heat shield.
Since there is not a whole lot of room for hands I installed the whole assembly loosely kind of tilted down. When all the nuts were in place I turned the heat shield upward and tightend everything down. Enough rambling, photos will say much more:
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