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Posted by Blown Mystic (Member # 476) on :
 
I was talking to griggs and they said while my steering shaft is out that i should replace it with thiers because long tube headers can melt the plastic on the stock shaft and cause steering problems? Is this true? is it worth the 225 bucks?
 

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Posted by gR40coupe (Member # 698) on :
 
I have bbk 1 3/4 l/t with the stock steering shaft i had to bang the fuck out of my headers to make it work so if you have anything bigger than a 1 5/8 you might want to by it i should by one.
 

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Posted by Blown Mystic (Member # 476) on :
 
i have the bbk's im not talking about clearance but the plastic melting and causing sterring problems
 

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Posted by st5150 (Member # 51) on :
 
Is griggs the shop rebuilding your motor?
 

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Posted by Blown Mystic (Member # 476) on :
 
i am having the motor built by HCI
 

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Posted by Blown Mystic (Member # 476) on :
 
so is the steering shaft worth it??????
 

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Posted by shade-tree (Member # 298) on :
 
I have 1 5/8 longtubes, and would not be worried about an iron steering shaft (my humble opinion), however, I had to reroute/zip tie the clutch cable out of the way a bit.
 

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