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BBK 351 Swap Headers Don't Fit!!!

  • Thread starter Thread starter macx
  • Start date Start date Oct 10, 2004
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macx

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  • Oct 10, 2004
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Finally got time to take the car down for a week to do the swap.
Need it Monday to go to a distant job interview.

Got the headers on this morning, but they don't match the
H pipes!

The connections are basically in the right place, but are
angled wrong. Especially the pass side - it points way too
much toward the starter.

And the steering column rubs.

Disgusting for what is supposed to be a bolt in!!!

Now I have to drop the H pipe and try to rework the
ends to fit the headers.

And will have to borrow a car for the job interview trip.

If they're going to sell stuff and advertise it as a bolt
in part "with no modifications necessary to the exhaust",
it ought to bolt in!!!
 

giddyup306

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Use the blue wrench and make it fit if you need it.
 

bluevenom867

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Dec 15, 2003
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Oct 10, 2004
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  • Oct 10, 2004
  • #3
Yup, I had the same problem.
Talked to the guys at Blue Oval about it and they said thats just how they fit.
I had problems with the steering shaft to.I got one of thous flaming river billet steering shafts.
 
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