Ok after finding out my head gaskets were leaking on my 408. I took them to the machine shop and they are back, I went with sce copper head gaskets. They reccommended that I retorque my edelbrock heads after a few hours of run it. How the heck do I do that with the header flange in the way? I have 2 unbolt the motor and half the front end 2 get headers off at the very lest. Should I just cutt the header flange between the head bolts??? or???? do I really have 2 retorque? any advice is advice and I will do well with it

 

 

Alum heads should be retorqued after running them a little bit. The alum expands and contracts and in doing so will need to be retorqued. I'd hate to say this, but it looks like you will have some work ahead of you.

 

Looks like your only choices are, tear it down and re-torque, or don't re-torque, and tear it down for a rebuild...

IMO, re-torque is much less costly...

 

Run it in on an engine dyno. Much less work even considering transportation time and expense. Do it right, or you'll be sorry later.

 

yes the only option would be to loosen the hedders {PITA, I know} to get acess.
Agree with Richinny about making more room by removing the T-bars.