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rooman:

--- Quote from: wideopen231 on July 05, 2015, 12:15:19 PM ---Another issue you will find with Hemi or I did. The cowl and right cyliner head. Head sits way back and on mine VC is over cowl enough to cause issue removing and installing it w/o hitting head. On  Hemi oil pump can cause issue with uprights or diagonal. I head to step diagonal back from intersecting with up right to fit pump in.

Now I know why so many run SBC in these things.

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You are talking late hemi mate, Luke has an early one. Different problems---need an adapter to route the oil lines from the original filter location on the right rear side of the block and the exhaust side face on the head is at more on an angle compared to the block face, hence his problem with the headers.  A late hemi will fit in a 20" inside chassis with off the shelf headers but an early one usually won't unless the top frame rail is low or the headers  come off the flange at an angle. On the early hemi the valve cover rail is about an inch forward of the bellhousing mounting face and on the 426 style it is about an inch back, hence you cowl problem. Brendan Murry had the same problem when he switched to the late motor as I built the car for the Chevy/Arias package.

Roo

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