Having the exhaust headers out of the way will make engine/trans removal/installation much easier.
You can probably get away with unbolting them and laying them back out of the way, this might help more with the drivers side as it can get a little tight in there.
It is easy to break the distributer while installing the engine/trans...............ask me how I know.
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