I must have been lucky, I hear alot of posts complaining about the difficulty in getting the dipstick out. I really didn't have any troubles with mine, even with 94K on the block.

 

My Dad and I took out my manifolds this weekend, went pretty well, dipstick came right out with no problems (probably helps that there is a small oil leak from the intake manifold).

We jacked up the engine to test fit the passenger's side and put it in through the top, plenty of room

We slid the driver's side right in no problem, but it doesn't fit right! It is right in front of the floor cross member with no room for the flange!!


Please help me

 

My guess is that the motor mounts are old and are sagging. Making the collector end in a spot it is not suppose to. However this is a guess, seeing as I cannot view your photo. A new set of motor mounts may solve your problem.

Thats only a guess though maybe some one else can agree with or shoot my response down.

~Jim~

 

Did you take the jack out from under the engine yet? I clearance my #1 primary for the steering unnecessarily because I forgot the engine was still jacked up.

 

We actually did the drivers side first, the car was jacked up on the control arms but the motor was not jacked up yet

 

Are they Hooker headers? I know the Hooker Y pipe is indented on the driver's side to make it past the crossmember.

 

No they are pacesetters, Pacesetter has to call us back to tell us what to do, we figure that if we cut some of the collector off we could make it fit, but we really dont want to do it.

Any pics would be helpful

 

So is the problem that the header collector comes back too far or that it just doesn't hang low enough?

 

The problem is that it doesnt hang low enough, we couldnt even get a 3" to 2.5" reducer to fit without bending a pipe down around the floor cross-member

 

I'd guess that's why the hooker Y pipe is indented where the crossmember is. They realize that the driver's side collector doesn't hang down low enough...I'm guessing for ground clearance reasons, so they designed the Y pipe to work around that crossmember. I think you can just make it work by clearancing the Y pipe. Shouldn't impede flow that much.

 

I thought about trying to clearance my reducer but the collector is too long to fit the flange

 

Since when did pacesetters have flanges on the collectors?

 

sorry, they are separate flanges that need to be welded on

 

Im kind of getting tired of Pacesetter

Summit was nice enough to send me another pair of headers to try. There is better clearance for the cross-member but the port/manifold piece is warped about 1/4 inch.

Does this matter to my install? Is it going to leak constantly?

Anybody else have this problem? It is the same on both sets they sent me!!

 

Pics? Man, I'm starting to be glad I didn't go with Pacesetter.