200R4 update

All right. Everything is where it needs to be. Test fitting is done, and tonight we pulled the motor and tranny back out. We held the headers to the manifold to see how they fit and they are block huggers, no doubt. One side is an oil filter heater, the other a starter heater. I am attaching a pic showing how the one side wraps around the oil filter. I also have today - the long awaited - pics of the cuts in the upper crossmember readily seen with the motor out. Bear in ming that I had just sprayed undercoating in these pics. I also have some pics of the pinch weld. We ended up not needing to notch it for the dipstick tube. Just folding it rearward was enough. Then we undercoated it as well. I pulled both intakes and swapped them. I am going with the RPM air gap intake. We are using my old Mopar Performance valve covers because they are smaller and will clear the brake booster. Plus they look better. We were concerned about height so we set the VC on with no gasket and turned the motor over by hand. No movement - they clear. We will do a little monkeying around on little stuff, then it all goes in permanently this weekend.

View of the upper crossmember cutaway looking from the front to the rear.
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View of the upper crossmember cutaway looking from the rear to the front.
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Pinchweld folded. Tried different lighting. The pic doesn't show it well.
View attachment Cutaway upper and pinchweld fold final.jpg
View attachment Pinch weld fold final.jpg

Header on driver's side. Or, as we call it, the oil filter heater. Those headers are pretty!
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