Thread: 351W EFI into Classic Rangie

Tailshafts were locally made and fairly expensive.$500 for both.
Here's where I got to with the headers on the weekend plus a coupla pipes on the left hand side. It's a bit of fun shaping the round pipes to go in a rectangular hole let me tell you!

Stumbled by this thread by pure chance.......and stayed for the wealth of information. Impressed with your fitting skills, excellent work.

Looks like there is plenty of room there to play with Pete, what about the left side? A bit more squishy I bet. They look great, I remember your thread on a 5.8L EB when you carved up some pacemakers and made them fit. You make these jobs look really easy.

Yep left hand side is more squishy for sure. That's the trouble with photo's I suppose, you only see certain points so you don't see how hard it was to get to that point.
The pacemakers on that EB being steel, made it easier to work with in terms of shaping, plus I didn't have to shape the tubes for the head flanges. Of course there were difficulties where two or more pipes meant you couldn't get at the join to weld up, something that doesn't occur when starting from scratch unless you don't think about what you're doing.

LH side...







Here's the shifter I'm attempting to use..

Nice work Pete. I'll have to take your word for it as far as the photos making it look easier is concerned because the photos make the LH side look pretty simple. The worst part about Windsor heads and extractors are the damned flange bolts. It looks like you have that covered too.

Thanks Bloke,
The LH side is much harder to make than the RH but it's not impossible that's for sure. A cleveland or Cleavor would be a piece-o-**** that's for sure.

Here's my welding jig(another head) on the steel table I picked up the other day for a 100 bucks...beats clamping the work to the roo bar which is what I was doing up to this point.



Todays' progress...
I've decided to make a new crossmember so that the exhaust is above it not under it like in stock form.