Thread: Vega steering conversion

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Nice motor mounts Brian.

Interesting too that getting the steering and exhaust to work together in an SBC powered car can be such a tough go.

The pic below shows the header/steering shaft setup in my 32.
Home-built eaders make life a lot easier.
My friend runs a car similar to Brians, he's run a couple different sets of 'block-hugger' headers and both of them were a tight fit.

I think there's a commercially available BBC header for the thin fendered cars.
I'd make a point to get a set of these before you build the motor mounts or mount the steering box.
(Unless you're building your own headers or are using stock manifolds.)

Measurements are nice to have, but once you start working in three dimensions, all bets are off.

If there is a severe conflict between steering box, exhaust system and engine, give some thought to a fore and aft (side-steer) draglink.
That will get the steering box out of the way for the most part.

A correctly set up side-steer system will not have bump-steer problems.
Bump-steer in side-steer setups is a much bandied about tale repeated by guys who've never been involved with one and are repeating what they've heard.

A sloppily thought out steering system regardless of whether it's side or cross-steer can have bump-steer problems.

Anyway, you can see that the steering box in my 32 is tucked under the motor mount a little ways.
It sits about the same height as the box in Brians pic.