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Head bolts bottomed out?

Sheldon



or the dowel pins ?

A friend .. RIP ... Had a similar issue , but it wasn't the head bolts bottoming , it was the threads in the block were screwed up and gave a FALSE torque reading , 2 sets of gaskets later ... 20 plus qts of oil and 2 trips to a big name hemi builder in Pa. that didn't do it right the first 2 times ... I told him it should have head studs instead of bolts on a race engine making 800 pls HP and Alum heads, switched to head studs and problem solved ...

I'm not suggesting that this build needs studs ...