Which Exhaust Manifolds?

Map63Vette said
I think GDemon used the car manifolds, but you have to clearance the frame rail on the passenger side with a cutout. From what I head the Jeep manifolds fit with no modifications, but I've not seen it in person. That's the route that some magazine took with the swap (I think Hot Rod maybe). I think the truck ones point right at the firewall, so while they may fit the bay okay I think it's hard to get pipes on them. I ended up going with TTI headers and while tight, everything fits okay. I was planning to use the LX car manifolds that came with my engine, but didn't want to cut up my frame.

Buschi340 said
sure that only a cutout is required to use srt8 car manifolds? what size?

Gdemon does not have SRT8 manifolds - he has regular 5.7 manifolds.

Map63Vette said
Don't know about the SRT8 ones, the cutout is needed on the stock car manifolds for sure from what I hear though. I know a few people have looked into the Jeep SRT8 factory "headers", but I don't know that I've ever seen a picture of them installed in an A body yet.

I've got the jeep SRT8 manifolds- before I had the manual steering box in, I thought I could make it work (running into torsion bar, but could have modified). However, once the manual steering box was in, I didn't see any way to make them fit.

I do know that the SRT8 jeep manifolds hug the block more than the lx srt manifolds. I'm guessing that's the case with the 5.7 manifolds as well, hence the need to clearance the frame with the 5.7 hemi LX exhaust manifolds.