well............ Got the passenger side header in. How close was I before.........really damn close. I just needed an extra set of hands to help out thanks to my friend that came down today. And surprise surprise....they went in from the top as well as the bottom, who would have thunk it. I did not take the other bolt off the motor mount but with it loosened up it was enough to give me the clearance I needed along w/ the tranny mount being unbolted. So overall the tranny did not have to come out. But it was all not a cake walk. One of the primary tubes was hitting on the inside of the engine bay so it had to be massaged with a BFH to properly fit. But as of now everything clears and I have good clearance on by the tranny mount for the prochamber. So now I can finally send them off to be coated and hopefully I can do that pretty soon.
Also got the rear end installed, none of the bolts are torqued to spec yet, once we got it so it would support itself we moved onto the headers so tomorrow I'll torque everything down. Over all I feel good with the progress made today. It was only a matter of time before things had to swing the other way as far as the header fitment issues