Ohio Ironhead
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We finally got the 440 set in place tonight and got the fenderwell headers to fit. It took a ton of cutting and is going to take alot of welding to get the headers to fit right. The headers are for a 67 up a body.
I didnt have to cut the headers up at all. The front engine plate is the one from mancini for a 67 up a-body. and the tranny is close, i mean real close to the tunnel. I will probably be moving the tunnel up about an inch so we can get a tranny blanket on the car.
Yea the reason we were going to move the master cyclinder is because of the vavle cover. The engine and tranny are sitting in the stock location. The master cyclinder would probably bolt up in stock location with thte vavle covers but you would never get them off to adjust the vavles. I was going to move it up to top bolts and use braided lines that way if I have to take it off I can unbolt it and move it easily out of the way.
Im going to go back and dress up the holes once we get everything fitted. I actually had to move the shock location forward about 3/4" to get the 2nd pipe back to fit. I will try to get some pics of the hole once I get them finished without the headers in them. We are getting rid of the solid mount tranny and going to rubber mount. I've heard of two many horror stories of solid mount engine with solid mount tranny breakin tailshafts because there is no give.