Pissed off at Tranny Crossmember, exhaust woes inside :(

[Demon of Dreams]

right... well... I got my headers on my 79, no problem at all, nothing to it, aside from needing a small dimple on the #3 plug so my wire boot will clear and not go melting off on me...

However... I had intended on running a pair of purple hornies, right off the headers... and wouldn't ya know it? the headers drop about an inch too low for me to be able to run the drivers side glasspack over the damned crossmember... and they don't drop low enough for me to be able to run it under it....

how do I get around this?
Right now my only option is to have an exhaust shop make me a modified header collector extension so it bumps up and goes over the crossmember, and will have to get one for the other side to get the exhaust so they're even in placement...

i assume theres no way around it...
exhaust shops won't touch my truck so I kind of have to play it by measurements, because I won't be putting cats back on it until I run a true dual with a bigblock ... and I can't afford to get a pair of cats for another few months, and the way the headers are, it'd be damn near impossible to mount them anyway...

any suggestions? I assume all other crossmembers that fit the trucks are the same way? I don't think it'd be possible to pirate a crossmember from a 454 3500 2wd 76 or 78 Suburban and use that... would it?

Demon