So, I installed headers about 7-8 months ago. My car is lowered, so I had spacers to raise the engine to reduce vibrations. With the headers installed, the downpipe contacted the tunnel/firewall, so I removed the spacers, and all seemed OK.
Noticed after a few months I was getting a slight power steering leak from under the car. Power washed the engine, and saw the leak was coming from a power steering line, right next to the downpipe. The downpipe had burned/sawed a hole through a power steering line.
I replaced the power steering line(which was a pain!), and zip tied them down a bit out of the way, but the downpipe could still make a tiny bit of contact. I figured the reason the downpipe was making contact was due to worn engine mounts, so I replaced both lower engine/trans mounts with poly mounts. The stock mounts were smashed flat. Now the engine is back up off of the power steering lines, but is now hitting the tunnel/firewall again.
Any thoughts on how to resolve this?
Noticed after a few months I was getting a slight power steering leak from under the car. Power washed the engine, and saw the leak was coming from a power steering line, right next to the downpipe. The downpipe had burned/sawed a hole through a power steering line.
I replaced the power steering line(which was a pain!), and zip tied them down a bit out of the way, but the downpipe could still make a tiny bit of contact. I figured the reason the downpipe was making contact was due to worn engine mounts, so I replaced both lower engine/trans mounts with poly mounts. The stock mounts were smashed flat. Now the engine is back up off of the power steering lines, but is now hitting the tunnel/firewall again.
Any thoughts on how to resolve this?
