can anyone help with '78 302 hatchback, hedman hedders, auto trans, trying to run dual exhaust but the transmission crossmember is in the way of the driver's side collector and i can't finish the exhaust.
hey lilcbra yeah i am interested email me how much you want and total cost with shipping to nazareth, pa. if i could get it by this weekend i can finish the car. same screen name as here on yahoo or call my cell 610-509-2131-jeff
How did your exhaust turn out? Was the hole I milled out enough? I never double checked it to mine since it was in the car and I wanted to make sure you got it in time. Hope it went well!!
I had a similar problem. The header collector was directed at my trans crossmember. (drivers side) I removed the crossmember, cut that section of the member out and welded in a piece of 6" diameter pipe that I cut in half. I tig welded the pipe to the crossmember sections (where I removed the previous portion) and had it powdercoated. It works beautifully. I can post photos if someone explained how to. This may sound crazy but it looks good and works very well.
That sounds like a really good approach.
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This is for the I4 and V6 I believe. The V8 is the same but with a hole in the center between the trans mount bolts to clear the center bolt.View attachment 318628
I just bought a cheapie single hump, cut the hump off,fabbed it up ,and welded it to my crossmember.BINGO . But I do like the sound of welding in the tube.
My car has the old Dynomax headers, one of them pointed directly at the cross member. I trimmed mine to fit, it is made of really thick metal, it has been on the car for 15 years and I never had a problem.
over in the forums section of the .net site they have a second classified section listed as parts-buy-sell . the ad is not in the main classifieds.
guy is selling 2 of the double hump cross-members. a little more than i would pay but no where near as bad as the one listed earlier in the thread. the ad is just listed as "misc parts hard to find "
I just bought a red King this past weekend and the previous owner gave me 2 of those cross members, both from a V6 car and one had the hole hogged out already. They were both blasted and repainted black, PM me if your interested in one, or I can bring it to carlisle this weekend for the ford show.