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this is the best solution, it's a pain in the butt finding a good machine shop that can take 0.025" or 0.030" off each side but then you can add a gasket to the valley pan without messing up the alignment of the ports and creating this aggravating problem. anyone know if other v8's have this problem or is it just mopar big blocks? why is it so common with our engines?




It's simple math. Angles change as blocks are decked,heads are milled and who knows if someone didn't already cut the intake...