Doug's headers not fitting - frustration

this looks more normal to me. nut appears to be a 1/4 inch more towards the center, and the washer is larger and still farther away... maybe it's all in the pictures
I can't tell by eyeballing photos I would have to take them off and have a set to compare on hand.

It's so far off it's not even funny.

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After work, I raised the transmission - that made it worse.

Then I took the nut off the driver side biscuit, lifted the engine up and jammed all the shims I've got (1/2") under the biscuit - no significant help.

While I had the transmission on the wheeled jack, I lowered it back down and tried to pry the tailshaft toward the passenger side. No joy.

I don't know what to do next, I'm out of ideas other than to take it all apart one more time and break out the hammer and torch again. I am not happy about that. But I don't know what else I can do besides order a stud kit and buy manifolds for it. With my luck, those wouldn't fit either.