true, low it does suck but i really felt bad driving my truck home to suburbia at midnight with that loud exhaust. IMO open header is annoying as hell

 

Yeah, well I got the truck down to the exhaust shop free of problems and went ahead and put on some magnaflow high flow cats while I was there. There were some clearance issues with the stock cats, but it does sound way meaner and seam to run much better. Had Charlie update the tune for me last night too.

But I still have a pretty rough rub on the headers. At this point, I have ground the head of the bolt down, cut part of the retaining clip off, and ground a tiny bit of the bolt thread down. The bolt still needs to be cut probably about a 1/4", but I'm still not sure that will fix all the problems. Is there any way to shift the steering shaft over about 1/4"-1/2"? Either that I am going to have to try and get the header hot and use a prybar to move it a little bit.

 

i dont think theres anyway to relocate or move the steering shaft over any.... so weird how most headers fit perfect in some instances and others dont...

 

Is it the head of the bolt or the end of the bolt? If it's the head get a carriage bolt w/ an allen head fitting on it, if not the head just cut off the thread past the nut. I wouldn't hit the header w/ a hammer plus you would have to pull the header off now to do it.

 

Well, I got a shorter bolt and its not hitting anymore, but now I am discovering that the first rib on the accordian shaped part of the steering shaft is rubbing the header primary. I am very close to getting this problem solved, but its still grabbing on a small section when the first rib gets too close, and it is still grabbing the steering a bit when this happens. I wonder if I can grind this first rib down a bit to get a little more clearance?

 

The best solution for me would to be to take off the shaft and remove the ribbed section and have a piece of solid steel bar welded into its place. I have been able to get 90% of the rubbing solved by denting in the header primary, but there is still a slight rub/bump on the header when turning the steering wheel just slightly to the left. I can feel a little feedback at times to through the steering wheel. Its not bad, but still noticable. I am going to try and get the header dented in just a little bit more in one spot where I think its grabbing, and might grind down the head of the nut just a bit more and it should fix the problem.

Only issue is that the primary looks like **** all dented in, but I really don't/didn't have any other option.

 

Hell with the bolt rubbing get some pipe on that thing before you warp a valve.

 

That's crap - does ASM know of the fitment issues? If I remember, they're headers are like $900 or so? Shouldn't be problems like that for that kind of money.

 

werd. considering the cost of the pacesetters i'm expecting a few obstacles.
If you had a picture of what exactly was goin on it would help a bit. Sounds like it could be a simple fix with some redneck engineering

 

There's plenty of clearance with the pacesetters.

Some people have moved their steering 'box' over and got it realigned when things are touching.