Finally get to pretend I am one of the cool kids - Holley kit swap

I don't think I want to adjust the header. It might have been able to be done tighter, but I don't have a steering column in the car yet so there might be reasons.

I really think some careful hammer blows to the inner fender would open that up quite a bit. And since this is the side where the motor rocks away (assuming there is any kind of squish to the motor mounts), the gap will only get better while it is running.
O yep thats a good point, i am running power steering as well. Going to be interesting fitting all that. As dont think manual conversion is an option as getting manual column in Australia would be difficult haha. Watching very keenly mate as i have the same set up, have all the parts just not at this stage of build yet