Help! 350 eng installed, headers installed, motor mounts bolted up but trans is not in car yet and before header install if i let the eng hoist down the eng would sink into the bay and now that i have the headers on when i let the tension off the hoist the eng wont move? I saw the dr header getting caught up on the A arm mount so i had to chop that a little but still seems like everything is just a little to tight. Anyone else had this problem?? Thanks for the help.

 

I am not 100% sure what you are saying or asking. But best guess is your headers are hitting something because your transmission is not installed and that is causing the motor to tip backwards.

 

Thanks for the reply. Sorry that post came after a long day of messing around in the garage. I think the better question should have been is if anyone else is having problems with Headman long tube header fitment in their third gen camaro. I have modified quite a few things in the car to this point getting the headers installed.

 

It's almost always IMPOSSIBLE to drop an engine in with headers installed.

Lay the headers in the chassis; lower the engine; as it gets close to the mounts, begin trying to bolt the headers up. With poor-fitting headers it may take a few lowerings & raisings of the motor before you get everything hacked up enough for it all to fit. And even then something will probably rub or vibrate or rattle or get burned up once you get it running.

Long-term solution to the short-term problem is, get headers THAT FIT, instead of trying to graunch in something that doesn't.

 

I've had those hedman longtubes in two cars and on each one i had to trim off part of the control arm perch on the driver side. Aside from that they fit well.