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Originally Posted by Juggernaut
Apologies for the ignorance. I know it's good to have the engine pushed back a ways rather than hanging way out in front of the vehicle, but is there extra benefit to having half of it inside the cab?
Excited to see the work on this truck!
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You'd be surprised how little moving the engine back 3-4" effects weight distribution. At least with a lightweight LS based engine and a long wheelbase vehicle such as this. Moving a battery from the front to the back can have more an effect.
We have a few different sets of headers sitting around the shop we use for mock up. Of all the ones I tried our own off the shelf headers fit the best. Mainly because the rear cylinder primaries go forward slightly before going down. This actually allowed me to move the engine back another 2.5"(12.5" total) with relative ease. I had to raise the engine in order to keep the pans(engine & tranny) above the bottom of the frame anyway. It had to go up over an inch(too much) in order to keep the transmission tabs off the tunnel. Now I've got clearance issues with the intake manifold. Next week I'll trim the tunnel a little more where the tranny tabs are interfering so I can bring the engine down roughly 1/2". This may or may not be enough to clear the intake manifold again.
Needless to say if the engine stays this far back I will have a constant foot warmer.
