I fought this, and everything I tried, with various headers...nothing worked. I just could not get by the stock steering box, even when shimming it over as far as it would go.
This last pair of headers are shorties from a 1986 Corvette. Smallest things I've ever seen. They came within a quarter inch of being able to bolt them up, but then THAT WAS IT. Not a millimeter further.
Then out of curiosity, I turned it upside down, like people do when they mount turbos. That way, it fit beautifully, and the stock steering box can stay in the stock location too.
It looks a little funky, but if everything is prepped really nice, or even chromed, it could look good. I'll have to use a J-bend to get the pipes back in the right direction, and probably have to go through the wheel well, but then my set up is perfect for a pair of future turbochargers if I want.
Wow, that'd be something wouldn't it? Twin turbo V8 in an AD truck.
