Question About Headers/Pavement

[HWY HNTR]

Shorten the runners (where they run vertical), and then run them at the slightest angle you can manage until they get far enough to meet the rest of the exhaust. Use some flex pipe if needed. The rest of the exhaust may need work as well.

http://www.google.com/search?q=exhaust+flex+pipe&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1920&bih=931

This is definitely not going to be the most efficient or power producing header around, but based on your ride height I don't think that's really a priority with this build, correct?

well, while I'm not trying to be the fastest guy on the road lol, I do **** going forward with performance then going backwards. I am building a 351w to put in it (hopefully before the end of this year) but yea I'm going to try and shorten the runners like you said, I mean, it's only got to be raised a few inches then it will be above the safety of the frame and then I won't have to worry.

More likely to just damage the headers, or at most the studs, but really, do you want to push your luck? Even just a cracked or bent stud, or anything that causes a leak at the head will make for a very shitty day.

I know, it's just that the car is finally on the road and looking good and I didn't want to take the exhaust and stuff, cause there's so many projects around here that if I take a car off the road for just a tiny bit it seems like forever. But ya I'm gonna raise it just enough past the frame

[Shade]

I had a Honda and the header was just as low as yours. Drove around bumping the road for weeks and thought I was gonna be fine, until that one bump. Don't ride around like that man. It WILL happen.

[CHIF8008]

if you hit them hard enough you CAN do damage to the tubes themselves and cause the welds to brake.(or maybe even shear the bolts that come out of the head that hold them on) i say get them shortened just a lil to be either flush with the bottom frame or close to it if you have room for them to sit higher. also i would weld an additional skid plate to the bottom of those so that i had to first scrape through that before my real exhaust.