Wow man that really sucks, sorry for your loss. Do they know what happened, does it seem to be just a random shooting like just in the wrong place and got hit by a stray bullet, or did someone intentionally kill him?
As for the air conditioning bracket, I assume you're having trouble because of the part that's bolted into place with two of the bolts through the front cylinder in the stock exhaust manifolds? You "may" be able to get spacers made (some 1/4 or 3/8 iron plumbing pipe cut to length might work), or use a stack of washers and two longer bolts to fill in the gap between the bracket and the now much thinner exhaust flanges on your headers compared to the stock manifolds. I've seen some G body specific headers come with a built in spacers to solve that issue. I'm sure multiple guys here are running headers with the early stock air conditioner and V belt pulleys that might be more helpful than me.
I was looking at my stock AC bracket the other day and trying to figure out this exact problem for when I swap motors in my car. I want to keep the air conditioning at all cost, and will not settle for stock manifolds. There's gotta be a way around it... Worst case I may buy a used serpentine belt setup off a junker 90's truck.
It doesn't need the air conditioner compressor in place to run though... If you're just trying to get it going. Really just need a belt to the water pump and alternator to run... And ideally to the power steering if you want to drive it lol.
it really sucks, knew him for 10 years, our kids grew up together and he left behind his wife and 4 boys , I knew there was problems between him and his wife , not sure if he was messing around and being at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was with some female when I’m guessing boyfriend followed them and caught them ,,,( don’t know for sure everything still under investigation I do know the female and the male that shot were Family friends) needless to say he was shot in the car passanger side , Female called authorities told them who it was , found guy tried to do traffic stop and he led them in speed chase untill he stopped came out of car holding a gun and he was killed by officers .
And yes as far as brackets goes since we went with long tube header the original bracket that attached to header doesn’t fit anymore , was trying to find either a replacement that I can use or if I have to just buy a new bracket set up , and if so which bracket set up works , would also be needing the one for power steering since those brackets seem to overlap or need one another to support themselves
I know I don’t need the ac but would like to have it set up , so I don’t forget how it’s suppose to go, it only took me 10 years to get this far and not being able to ask my buddy makes It A little harder Cars were his passion so I knew he already knew what I was gonna need but we didn’t get a chance to discuss that after all , we had plan on having car running by this past weekend or this upcoming weeekend the latest :/