Installing headers -- While engine pulled or after re-installed?
I'm going to pull the 5.9L Magnum in my '67 Barracuda to replace a leaking freeze plug and some other work. I'd like to replace the stock manifolds with headers, probably TTI shorties unless someone tells me why I shouldn't. It is a 4-speed car, and at the moment it has slant-6 torsion bars, which I may or not replace at a later date. I've read the that 1.04 torsion bars often require a little bit of percussive reforming on the header.
Am I better off installing the headers before I drop the engine back in (assuming I can even do that), or do it afterwards? I'm not pulling the transmission for this, just the engine. If I need to, I can also replace the starter with a mini-starter. I can't read the model # of the starter, but it's one of the ones that can be re-clocked, and not a full-sized one like used on the 318 LA engines (I don't know what starter normally comes on a 5.9L Magnum, this one was already on there).
I'm doing this by my lonesome, so I'm looking for anything that makes it easier.
I'm going to pull the 5.9L Magnum in my '67 Barracuda to replace a leaking freeze plug and some other work. I'd like to replace the stock manifolds with headers, probably TTI shorties unless someone tells me why I shouldn't. It is a 4-speed car, and at the moment it has slant-6 torsion bars, which I may or not replace at a later date. I've read the that 1.04 torsion bars often require a little bit of percussive reforming on the header.
Am I better off installing the headers before I drop the engine back in (assuming I can even do that), or do it afterwards? I'm not pulling the transmission for this, just the engine. If I need to, I can also replace the starter with a mini-starter. I can't read the model # of the starter, but it's one of the ones that can be re-clocked, and not a full-sized one like used on the 318 LA engines (I don't know what starter normally comes on a 5.9L Magnum, this one was already on there).
I'm doing this by my lonesome, so I'm looking for anything that makes it easier.