Thread: Help needed please

Tweet

I am installing Flowtech Afterburner full length headers in a 57 Nomad. It has a 57 283 with a TH350. The reason I chose these
headers is because they clear my rack and pinion. They hit the frame mounted trans. ears. I need to remove the mounts from the frame.
Now that I have one trans ear just about off I am worried I jumped in to fast as usual. I have a pretty stock 283 with front motor mounts. I installed a rear trans bar. Will I have problems torque breaking a front mount? The engine is 57 block so I doesn't have side motor mount bosses.
Any suggestions would really b appeciated.


Brian

Hmm, you make thing too hard. First of all, if your headers are hitting, why dont you just bend the headers to fit? Its a lot safer then removing tranny and motor mounts. secondly, whenever removing the mounts, always spray them, then heat them. take a good stout wrench and hit it free. Always decreases your chances of breakage. Or, if you have the compressor, use an impact wrench. But if it was me- I would bend the pipes and the headers. Have fun, that sounds like a decent car you have there.

drg84 - I was trying to get the headers tucked up above the frame so I don't mark my territorry everywhere. One big problem is the Rack & Pinion. Flowtechs ar the only heders that I have found that clear.

Brian

Allright, i guess thats understandable. Then just remove the mounts, and either make more customed ones or bend your current ones. Seems odd that your headers are problematicals, but it happens.