FE Headers

[lovehamr]

Update! After talking with Tony and getting that great offer from he and then Reg, I went down to the TRR and met Reg face to face for the first time. He was quite busy at the show but still talked to me for a good 30min about the ins and outs of putting an FE into a BDR. They also do not have an FE or a car for an FE to work on in Boynton Beach which works out nice for me. Seems there are quite a few tricks to getting this accomplished that I'd have had to find out the hard way. Things like the steering column has to come out before the engine will fit in and several more. Having my new motor hovering above my car only to realize that it wasn't going to fit would've sucked big time. I say "would've" because Reg decided that he wanted to have his guys do the engine install as well. As he said, the BDR was not designed with the FE in mind even though it can be done. But to be done requires some tricks that his guys already know very well. Of course he could've also been thinking: (now ya gotta read this with a SA accent in your head) "There's no way I want this big oaf messing about in a car my guys are going to work on." That being said, I couldn't care less. The BDR crew themselves are going to bolt my engine in, doing all the little mods necessary to get it done. Then they're going to fix me a set of headers which will work, insure that my side pipes are aligned, send my headers out to be coated, reinstall them, then bring my car back to me next week! All I can say is "Holy crap guys! Thanks a ton!" Here are a few pics of the car and engine being picked up last night.


The engine, BH and trans along with the car and the the transport with Bill heading down south with BDR687.

I'll let you know what happens next week! Steve