hooker ls1 swap headers, PICS

[s4dustin]

So I will have to modify a bit. Did not use thier full kit, just the headers.....the pass. side hits the control arm and the driver, the steering box...

Should I just heat them and tap them a bit or cut and reroute?






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[neki67]

Why don't you use their engine mounts? I know it's a bit more difficult to get everything to fit with the Hooker mounts but once done, the headers fit with all the room in the world and the engine/tranny are sitting as far back as possible which is really good for balance.

[s4dustin]

I shoud have. I made my own off the ATS template. I pushed the engine back 2.5 inches for 50/50. I took a torch to them. Pass. side fits, little more heat and banging tomorrow and it will fit.

They tuck nicely.

[skatinjay27]

on the passenger side where it hits the control arm make sure you clearance it enough because when you align the car they will be shimmed out towards the headers again.

[SatisTraction]

why buy headers to beat on? it makes no sense to me. it kills the performance and hurts the looks. just use the right mounts

[SamHatco]

I had no clearance issues with my hooker headers. 69 firebird, carshop engine adapters, small block engine mounts.



Sam

[CarlC]

Dustin will be running a roots-type supercharger, and hence cannot push the engine too far back due to belt interference with the firewall. It also cannot go too far forward and up or else the throttle body will hit the hood. The ATS plates place the engine almost perfectly for this application.

[67LS1T56]

Sam
I heard carshop's plates like s&p. but they have second version also which is more close to firewall. I wonder whichone you have. Bec. I have the s&p's.

[Mkelcy]

I'm doing an LSx swap myself right now and have been looking at a lot of the plates out there. It seems to me that the plates that use the lower forward bolt for both the three bolt engine mount and the four bolt plate must ALL locate the engine in the same place lengthwise and vertically in the engine bay. The only mounts I've seen that I recall right now off the top of my head that don't do this are the Edelbrock mounts, which move the engine back from the mounts that make the bolt do double duty.

A sticky thread detailing all of the plates would be pretty useful.

[SamHatco]

Sam
I heard carshop's plates like s&p. but they have second version also which is more close to firewall. I wonder whichone you have. Bec. I have the s&p's.

I'm not sure which plates I have. I got them almost 2 yrs ago. They only had one plate to choose from them.

Sam