Hemi fits toooooooooooo tight

Indy now makes pass. side valve covers that supposedly clears the shock mount.

Pete,
I am guessing you purchased this from us. Send us some pictures so we can look them over and see if we can help figure it out. You will want to talk to Roy if you call. As I will just pass it on to him anyway as he is more of the tech guy!

We have had very few issues out of the few hunderd we have sold. To build the jigs we used a mixture of NOS and used original K-Frames I do not think 2 of them were the same.
BTW there are two places in WI making these. If this is our K-Frame we will work on making it right as we have done on the few others that had issues.
prochargedhemi I do not know if you purchased one from us. If you did I cannot imagine my dad told you tough luck. I do not recall hearing of a steering box not fitting flush?? That plate is not removed. There are brackets to make sure it is in the proper position during welding built in the jigs.

Thanks PM sent.

The engine will not fit unless you take pass side valve cover off before lowering , I see u did that

The Schumakers will not work with every car , neither do the arruzas

The Wisconsin guy did my GTX kframe

he did a NICE JOB , and i have a set of arruza if you want to try ?

What Kind of car ?

I have the Megaparts frame in my Hemi Runner, using a manual steering box and cast iron manifolds, the engine fit is perfect.
Like they said the steering box plate is not affected by the motor mount conversion..
the Indy valve covers are a known problem as there are now covers from them that fit.
Big tube headers not fitting is nothing new.
Are you using factory heads? or larger aftermarket castings?

Other side,

Also,
Are you using the correct brackets? there are two styles, one for E body that puts the engine in a different place...than yours..

ooof you forgot to mention keeseler is in play here...

One thing I might add here, and I work on a lot of hemi stuff.

If you are planning on running headers and any of the aftermarket K frames, then you are best to resign yourself to going with manual steering. The P/S is a big headache otherwise.

If you have ever seen an original Hemi car with all original equipment-the fit is very tight in many areas. All it takes is for something to be "off" just a slight bit with the made up Hemi K frames that are available and you will have some serious fitment problems.

MB

Hows it fittin >

Waiting to hear also....

Well I have another post a few weeks back on the headers. Here is what I did.

One I got a new Indy right side valve cover. It is made for tower clearance. It fit real nice and solved that issue.

Two I bought an original hemi K frame and basicly everything basicly still fit the same. The gear box did fit away from the frame an 1/16 on an inch so the box fit better. I contacted TTI and we discussed the issue. I took a lot of pictures and a lot of measurements. After TTI reviewed my info they requested that I send the left side header back. As of this past Monday they called me and said a new one was made and being jet hot coated. So hopefully in a couple weeks I will get the new header and get it togeather. Fingers crossed. I will say that TTI never blew me off or told me to pack sand. They asked for critical data which I provided and by doing so they are taking care of the problem. Will try to update this when I get working on it.

I put the same k-member from the same people in my 68 charger.
Everything is very tight, just like yours. It's just the way they are, especially the TTI's. We had to modify mine/clearance to fit at the steering box & torsion bar area (2-1/4 primaries).
The Indy valve covers are larger than stock so no surprise there, even the other's are very close.