Last night's header progress:
Driver's side getting close.
Pardon the crappy pic, but it was taken in the wee hours and the only point is that the two big sections finally fit nicely to each other... The dog leg at the lower end pushes the merge toward the trans to minimize floorboard clearancing while giving me the outlet angle I wanted. Getting top and bottom to fit took some effort as I had one tube where I screwed up my "paint by numbers" build scheme and it threw me off for a while.
Some in car pictures.
Broke and reangled the pieces on the number 8 runner. It was touch bell-housing previously. It's landing nice now and actually has a little better firewall clearance than my 1 3/4 JTRs ever did.
The money shot:
Looks like these hang maybe 1" below the frame rails but given the big collectors I really can't get them much higher. Now I just need to get them all welded up without it moving anywhere. There's not a lot of margin with these.
Passenger side:
-3/8" to the starter (going to have to insulate it)
-3/8" subframe
-3/8" to the firewall
-3/8" to the floorboards (after clearancing a hump)
Driver side:
-3/8" to the Ronin pedestal
-3/8" to the steering rack hardware at the slip connection
-3/8" to the subframe
-3/8" to the oil filter
Wait for it:
-3/8" to the floorboards? Nope still touching the floorboards (but it'll be 3/8" clear by the time I'm done!)
Anthony's going to help me welding up the primaries this weekend. We also should have the FD 8.8 First Article done. We live about an hour apart these days so we try to do as much as we can when meeting up for work sessions.
Anyone have hot tips about welding the flanges? I'm thinking that's probably my single biggest risk of this moving on me when locking it down. If I tack the flanges in car I'll have to use my little 110v MIG, but maybe I can get a roll of stainless wire.
-Joel
@MrDudeWithGoals: What'd you get done last night?
