If it makes you feel better two weekends ago we were trying to fit the headers between the steering box and the block. the steering box has a ridge on the top, Rick looked at it and said it didn't look like it did anything, marked two lines and said to go ahead and cut it. he didn't say not to go full depth. yup, it does something, fluid pressure regulation or whatever, anyways it had to be welded up and pressure tested etc. looks like s*&t now. I am going to have to get a new one before long as it would suck to have such a blight on the car.

not as expensive a repair as yours, but an oops all the same.

Red