the old heads are off, the bottom end looks great!
but this wont work
due to my rack and pinion my steering shaft goes right in the middle of where a normal long tube would go, so headers would have to be custom made. so after doing some research I found out its gonna cost me about $2500 for a set of custom 304 stainless headers/midpipe. At the moment I dont have that much cash to lay down, in addition to having the car down for another month for them to be built. I got some headers off a guy last year that were "small block ford", other than that I knew nothing about them, but for 20 bucks I couldnt go wrong. I knew the head flanges were wrong but what the hell. fastforward to today...... amazingly they fit perfect and clear everything! This will be perfect because for a couple hundred dollars I can get the exhaust finished and start driving the car. I will get everything made in stainless soon but for now this will save me time and frustration, as well as give me a template for stainless versions later on.
I also received my hydraulic clutch kit, This will give me more room for the exhaust as well as improve the pedal feel over the prone to snapping clutch cable