Exhaust issues

[SBTork]

I am kind of new to the world of small block chevrolets, at least as far as working on them. I have an older 350 in my suburban, it has the drivers side dipstick and some mid 70's exhaust manifolds to clear it. I am wondering if I can put the stock 85 manifolds back on it and run a lokar dipstick or something to clear the manifolds?, or what my options are. I would run what I have but both manifolds have an ear broke off where a stud would go through. I already have manifolds off of my '86 C10 I had, just trying to do this exhaust on the cheap.