magnum head help ASAP

NAPA has the head bolts, but they have to ordered. It was like a 2 day wait here in Idaho. They were cheaper than the Mopar bolts. It took me a week to get the conversion pushrods in at the dealer. Word of warning, don't order the pushrods until you check the actual length you'll need with the heads bolted up.

I went with the .028 Mopar head gaskets and with my Comp cam, I only had .02 lifter preload. Also, the Mopar rods averaged .025 to .03 short of the advertised length. It works, but was noisey and not correct. I ended up going with pushrods that are 7.700 long and they made the preload .065.

If you want 31 Mopar conversion rods, PM me and I'll give them to you for $30 shipped...as long as you don't ask where the 32nd one is....

One more tip, if you end up going with a magnum style intake manifold rather than drilling your heads, Edelbrock makes a set of gaskets that sell for $15. I got mine thru Shucks's, Summit didn't list them. Any other route will cost you over $35 because the set comes with the plenum gaskets that the factory intakes use.

One more tip, Dodge dealers stock the Magnum intake bolts and they're reasonable at $12. They're hard to find at a hardware store as they're 2 1/4" long and most places have 2 and 2 1/2.