There she sits. Our filthy five oh. Fits like a glove! Not really. Like the manual states, there is clearance for days on the passenger side, not at all on the driver's.
We essentially have three key points we need to address with the drivers side.
- Move the ABS module out of the way. There is definitely room to slam it up tight towards the fender and brake master cylinder. We'll also use this opportunity to trim and reroute the brake lines away from the headers and tuck them tight against the ABS module.
- Clearance the firewall for the header. This is going to take some enthusiastic hammering and cursing. We will avoid cutting and welding as much as possible to get this sucker to fit. Header wrap will become a good friend of ours towards the end of the project.
- Custom steering shaft. Using flaming river joints and shafts as a starting point, we will have to route a clean 3 joint steering shaft similar to Vorschlag Performance's 3 point for their LS conversion kit. It looks like we will have to shift the steering shaft at the firewall a bit towards the brake booster to clear our set up. We will try to avoid this as well and instead dent the headers a bit to get it to fit. Not an ideal situation but id rather take a slight performance hit than have an odd steering wheel tilt.
Anyway, getting a bit more excited now as well as I have a better feeling of what step to take next.
