Sounds like it is to late for this but you should of put the motor/headers in then mocked the stering shaft up to go around through what you had to work with. Is it to late for that?
Haha, yeah it's too late for that, had to put a small dent in it, blood curdled a bit when I had to do that, lol, I have the steering column bolted up as far away as I could before I did it, its a small dent, gave it the clearance it needed.
GMachine, I could see it kinda sucking with the torsion bars in the way, luckily with the setup I have it deletes them!