Another early a header question

eestatic said
When you are stating "Magnum manifolds", what years/applications are you referring from?

I'm assuming the .200" is only on one side..

And what is the need for the flaming river coupler?

In another thread, I saw where a manifold was used but there was mention of shimming up a motor mount for clearance gain, but iirc the rubber seal? at end of steering column suffers...dunno what the fix was.

I have a '65 cuda w/273 auto/console floor shift, and am working on a 318 to transplant, considering heavily on going to an "upgrade" with "Magnum" manifolds, away from my restrictive factories, just trying to plan ahead..to what will fit (the first time) and allow for contingencies .

What do y'all think..??

Thanks for the great ideas/pictures

Yes, .200" off the drivers side only. Most machine shops wont be able to mill it unless you clamp it to a jig of some sorts. I had to find an industrial machine shop with a big table lathe, and even then I still had to clamp it to a big piece of plate steel, using welded studs and strap iron to clamp it to the plate.

The reason for the flaming river coupler is because I am running an aftermarket steering column that uses a "double D" shaft setup, so I had to use the universal joint with splines on one side and double d on the other side.

If you are running the original 65 column shifted steering column, and intend to KEEP it, you're pretty much SOL on the magnum manifold swap. Theres just not enough room with that bigass cable shifter mechanism hanging off the bottom of the column (correct me if Im wrong here). Thats the major reason I decided to aftermarket with the column.

So when you look at the big picture after all the trouble I had to go thru just to run cast iron manifolds on an early A, my best advice to anyone wanting to run anything OTHER THAN STOCK MANIFOLDS, is to just go ahead and run fenderwell headers. I just dont see any other practical way around it!

Oh and one more thing: If you have power steering, forget any notion of running the magnum manis!

I may be able to take pics tomorrow afternoon of the setup, since I just got the car back together over the weekend.