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Old 02-11-2014, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by OBeer-WAN-Kenobi View Post
If you did have to dimple them more it wouldn't be much unless the flanges are warped more than I'm thinking and they had to remove a lot of material. I haven't seen yours of course but I'd guess it would be less than 1/16" but you could also use a thicker gasket. I think they make thicker ones like they do for head gaskets.
Yeah, sorry, I wasn't very clear with that thought.

I had two reasons for looking at new headers. One is to get the flange to seal, but the other is because I'm currently at a 4* down angle on the trans. In order to shim the trans up another degree, I'll have to dimple the headers yet again.

I'm happy with my ground clearance:
Passenger:


Driver:



But this is what I'm dealing with for clearance:




And here's what I had to do just to get that:
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