[vettestr]

Hey Rick L., never thought about number of wasted bolts before? Ford also saved a nickle ninety five on those annoying adjusting bolts/nuts for the valve train Too! You can place any left over hardware in the intake manifold with a note with instructions to GO HOME.
I like the newer Gen 6 Dart blocks (GM DESIGN) that are missing the upper intake boltholes in the head. I just slap on the early intakes and leave those bolt holes blank. I have several people tell me bolts have fallen out frequently on the intake. I used RTV to spooge bolts in place on a customer engine cause he did not want open holes.
On the SB motors even 16 bolts won't clamp head gasket well enough to exceed 15 pounds squeeze on the mouse motor without pushing head gasket out. It is a communistic plan to deplete the nations bolt supply but lets not tell everyone. And what is up with this sneaking a metric bolt in here and there in the middle of all the other US Standard bolts?