belgiumbarry

those look like the ones i have on my rally car .... and they clear the clutch pan . As we can see , the collector pipes /flanges are still under a angle and not straight pointing rearwards as the ones Petza showed. I have those also , but never used them for that reason.

Steering side a tube has a light bend in it to clear the steering rod.... so LHD/RHD ???

I did indeed shorten the stud bolts , just long enough for gasket/ flange/washer/nut.
But didn't do it on situ , always demounted/mounted the engines with the headers already on.