Magnum Exhaust Manifolds in an A Body

Ok guys have to eat big crow on this one. Trying to get the Dakota manifold on the drivers side to fit is going to mean major major frigging. If I knew some one around here that was good at welding cast iron I would drive on with trying to install it as cutting out a portion and welding it short of the original dimensions would work. Just milling the mounting surface helps with the column interference but didnt help one bit with the p/s box issue. For guys with standard boxes I'm guessing that the milling 1/4 inch off the mounting surfaces will help tremendously with the columnn situation. I think that grinding the p/s box some and grinding the hell out of the manifold would work but the manifold at that point would be very thin. So....Im going with a half install...I got an early 340 A body manifold from another FABO member that Im going to install on the drivers side and the Dak big outlet manifold on the passenger side. I'm tired of frigging around and ready to start cruising!!!!