What carb and intake for 5.9 Magnum?

I like that hot rod article too. It was pretty inspiring.

I am using the Iron Ram heads from Hughes, and they are performing very well for me. Supposedly they flow better than the Edelbrock and have a true 58cc chamber. They were very inexpensive and make good power. If I had it to do over again, I would have gotten the 2.02 castings and had the spring seats machined for taller springs. I ran the skinny gaskets to help with compression. I am running the stock untouched shortblock and my pistons are .050 in the hole.

The other thing I like about the Iron Ram is that you can get them with the LA intake bolt pattern. I recommend the LA style Air Gap intake very highly. I doubt I am giving anything up to the Victor/M1.

I ordered a custom cam from Comp, using their XE lobes. It is smaller than the one in the article, but only slightly. 224/230 .536/.544 110 lobe sep. Cam is very streetable (with gearing) and pulls hard to the limit of the of the original Hughes 1110 valve springs - about 6200. I usually do the cam last. As you said if I had it to do over, I'd go with less lift.

I am running the stock rocker setup. It works, but if you can find rollers I am sure that would be better.

I am running 1-5/8 coated hookers. I am sure the 1-3/4 would be advantageous, I just wanted something I could easily adapt to the 2.5 TTi X-pipe I already had.

I am currently running a 750 quickfuel double pumper (with a stick especially, a double pumper is a good choice), but the car did run some 11.90s with a 670 street avenger holley (Holley street avenger carb is an excellent "plug and play" choice). No matter what you run, I highly recommend a wideband to help with the tuning.

My car is an auto, so I'm no help there, but it puts around 330 to the tires through a 904 with a 3000-ish torque converter. By the time you do the conversions to engine hp, it stacks up pretty well against the engine in that article, and the car is much quicker than I expected.

FWIW, my Dart is basically full weight, still have the bench seat and all that. It runs right about 3400 pounds. My shortblock is in "good" shape in that it doesn't smoke or put metal in the oil, but I get about 30-40% leakdown on all cylinders (cold).

Good luck! I love my Magnum.

Steve