HP Manifolds

Tom, I understand being a vendor worrying about clearances. There is a wear mark on the column on my son's Dart (440 with 69 B-body HP manifold). There is also very little clearance between the manifold and master cylinder. I worried about this when I put the first car together (I built myself a car with these parts, but my older son had a mishap with it and I gave the parts to my younger son). Some people have gained clearance with an angle mill (I don't own a mill) while others have slightly relocated the steering gear. This combination of parts has something close to 40,000 miles on it over the last 16 years without a related failure. I do understand why you wouldn't want to sell that to a customer, though.