small block oilpan in my bodydrop ...NOW I HAVE A HEADER PROBLEM...

just cut the crossmember and replate it up...its easy to do

i'll look into that oil pan and think about the crossmember. someone also said i just need a 4x4 oil pan (i guess that's what's in the photo above??). oh well, ill figure it out.

i think i will just cut and re-plate the crossmember. fuck it. lol but any other ideas in the meantime?

cutting the crossmember will be your easiest, cheapest solution...

ok sweet. so i have the oilpan problem fixed. now my big problem is the headers. i can't see how these will fit at all. the stock exhaust manifolds will not work. the heddman shorty s10 v8 swap headers are not fitting either. again, this is a traditional bodydropped s10 with a 350 small block. it seems like the biggest place they are hitting on both sides is the upper control arm. i have stock arms and hope i don't have to get suicide doors tubular arms to fix this problem. i want to get them but i don't want to spend $800. i know there are people with 20's up front on a bodydropped s10 with a v8 swap that have stock arms. right? lol   on my '84 s10 (that is not bagged) i have an LT-1 swap. the headers on there looks like they would be perfect, but they were custom made and i don't see any like them. 

The airbrushed s10 little shop has been building is running a sbc with some sort of factory manifolds...i got a pic somewhere.

Would making a new steering shaft help?  Can you post a pic?

dont know if these pics help any but here ya go:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IVKKhPdrw6k/SLoMll6DPeI/AAAAAAAABdw/0CNOJSMGxP4/s1600-h/DSCN0826.JPG http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IVKKhPdrw6k/SLoMl94C9QI/AAAAAAAABd4/Tj1nig8g0SE/s1600/DSCN0827.JPG  

i cut my crossmember, and re plated it

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Originally posted by disfiguredS10



The airbrushed s10 little shop has been building is running a sbc with some sort of factory manifolds...i got a pic somewhere.

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i bet it is the camaro manifolds, like a 89-92 or something. i was gonna try those but wasn't for sure if i should or if there was something i was missing with the heddman headers.





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Originally posted by thenephilm



Would making a new steering shaft help?  Can you post a pic?



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there doesn't seem to be any problems on the driver side where the steering shaft goes through the heddman headers, just where they hit the control arm. i'd post a pic but my dad just used those headers on his truck last night. haha wtf???





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Originally posted by minitrucker04



i cut my crossmember, and re plated it

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oilpan problem is fixed, but thanks.