Trans (&engine) install ?'s (anyone near Sacramento willing to come by & help?)
Ok.. so it has been a few months, had some things come up and finally getting back to the car. Good news is, I have the engine and headers in, the bad news is that they are not lining up? What is weird is that the drivers side is no problem at all? The passenger side is giving me fits. The headers are hitting the transmission pan, and also the collector is hitting the torsion bar close to where the torsion bar is inserted into the crossmember. I tried to mark the headers in the pics with tape to show all the different places where these are hitting. So it leads me to a few questions. I have (from what I can tell when compared to another set) some rather thick isolator blocks, would that be causing my engine to sit to high? Also the transmission seems to be hitting the hump where the transmission crossmember support is? Currently I have power steering in the car, my thought was since I recently acquired a manual steering box, and the motor and headers were in, and there wasn't any issue on drivers side that I would get the headers mocked up and see what issues I had and then switch to manual steering if needed. But the issues are all on the passenger side, is it possible the isolator blocks are causing the issues? Sorry, that is one thing I did not get a picture of yet. Will do tonight when I get home.
1rst picture shows looking down through the engine compartment on passenger side. You can see where headers are hitting transmission pan. It is preventing me from getting headers to mount up to heads.
2nd and 3rd pic show where the collector is hitting against the torsion bar.
4th pic is a view from below showing headers hitting transmission pan.
What the heck am I doing wrong here? Do I need to remove torsion bar? Are isolator blocks (I think that is what they are called, the rubber blocks between motor mounts and k-member) the problem? Do I need those? Without those my engine would be 1/2 lower and moved forward about 1". And that might be the clearance I need? This thing is supposed to go out for paint later this month, but I don't want to be putting engine in and out after paint.. Any suggestions??