Laugh as you may, but this is an area that you need to pay attention to. Just as there always critical areas you have to pay attention to on anything mechanical.
If it takes 44 post to get peoples attention and get the correct bolts installed then so be it. There is not a lot of clearance available back there and nasty things will happen if you use bolts
with to tall of a head. In my case I've never seen a Mopar convertor made with 3/8"-24 holes. After thinking about this I am almost ready to say that someone tapped them up from
5/16". It's the only logical thing I can come up with. I had considered tapping them to 7/16", but didn't feel there was adequate material thickness left so I had to machine the ARP
Chevy torque converter bolts down to work in my situation. When you take on a car project you do a lot of things that you never expect to do when you started.
Tom