About headers and trans.

I just got some 6901 hooker headers, and i figued installing them shouldn't be too bad, boy.... was i wrong.

the right side went in great,then it was on to the left side. I saw that I had to raise the engine up and few inches, and that was no biggy.

I tried squeezing them up there, and I was fighting them badly, so I removed parts of the shifting bars, that go to the trannie, and tring to jam the headers up there, they were hitting on the parts left over, and when I got the heads up into the area, the shifter peices were bent a little and trapped under. And they been driving me crazy, cause there not fittng in there that well.

and about the transmission, they said they will not fit a C6, and I figed that it was a C4 or C5, maybe I was wrong, and thats not why their fitting.

my car is a 73 302 with automatic.
maybe i should just go hook up a floor shifter instead of a worring about the colum.

you guys got any suggestions?

 

6901 headers won't fit on a column shifter without modifications. may be something in the archives about it. a couple of members have done them. hooker says in there catalog that they are not for column shifters. i have a floor shift and they went in pretty easy.

 

I like column shift and I throw away that multiangle linkage between two rods, upper and lower, then weld together upper and lower rods, bent them to a right angle and thats it. Attencion when you weld this rods together, the ends of the rods shud be in the right direction, they shud fit with the bushings.

 

I could try that, do you have a pic or something I could see.

That would be better than having to buy a floor shifter for $150.

 

It may takes day or two, to take picture and send...

 

I'll be going this route in may, so I'm watching for those pics too!

 

yea ben, a lot of ppl would enjoy those pics.

 

Tomorrow

 

here is the pictures:

 

awesome.

thanks for the pics Ben.

 

:bananaman I got the pieces welded and bent just right, and the shifter moves good.

but on the gauge bar above the steerring, it is a bit off.

when its at first gear it shows it at second, but besides that work great.

ill posts some pics of the bar by its self and stuff. so others can see.

This pic shows the bar before its ready to go back in

 

I had trouble with my same headers with a floor shifter. I had to heat up and bend the linkage that goes from the transmission to the collar on the steering column.

 

Thanks again for all the info guys, this'll help me with my 6901's and column shift.

 

Hey it's a jungle weld, I see apples and oranges

 

Holy Cow!