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FPA's have serious fit issues.
By Royce - 02/06/2004 7:38:28 AM; IP 67.29.206.142
Use header bolts. Studs are about impossible to use on FE headers unless you have a tube frame car.

Be sure to mount the FPA headers to the engine while it is out of the car. My set did not clear the right motor mount, the bell housing or the clutch linkage without a lot of cutting and beating on the headers.

In the car you will find that the idler arm bolts that hold the arm to the frame need to be cut off as short as possible past the nut and the header needs to be dimpled there also for clearance. I had to bend the lower arm on my clutch Z-bar about 1" to clear the lower left tube and had to cut off the engine mounted clutch ball bracket at the bottom for clearance.

Royce
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Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=20076&Reply=20076><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor20076" onclick="return false;">Edelbrock heads</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Dano, <i>02/06/2004</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=20076', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor20076') }); </script>  Edelbrock heads -- Dano, 02/06/2004
Collapse <b>FPA's have serious fit issues.</b>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Royce, <i>02/06/2004</i></font>FPA's have serious fit issues. -- Royce, 02/06/2004
 Forgot to mention.... -- Royce, 02/06/2004
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=20096&Reply=20076><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor20096" onclick="return false;">RE: FPA's have serious fit issues.</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Dano, <i>02/07/2004</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=20096', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor20096') }); </script>  RE: FPA's have serious fit issues. -- Dano, 02/07/2004
 Hookers -- greg, 02/07/2004
 I have Hookers on one of my other cars -- Royce, 02/07/2004
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=20083&Reply=20076><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor20083" onclick="return false;">RE: Edelbrock heads</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Gerry Proctor, <i>02/06/2004</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=20083', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor20083') }); </script>  RE: Edelbrock heads -- Gerry Proctor, 02/06/2004
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Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=20102&Reply=20076><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor20102" onclick="return false;">Edelbrock = CJ bolt pattern</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Royce, <i>02/07/2004</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=20102', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor20102') }); </script>  Edelbrock = CJ bolt pattern -- Royce, 02/07/2004
 RE: Edelbrock = CJ bolt pattern -- Dano, 02/08/2004
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