I'm still lost in the search for headers, do I buy long tube or shorties? And how good are summit brand intakes and cams?
I hate to say this, it irks me because there are some folks that can't give an answer without telling someone to do a search... but everything you have asked here, except the block issue, has been posted to death. Sorry man... but this is one case where a search would go miles for you. I don't think there are any shorties for a 5.8 in our cars. You got either stock 302 manifolds, 1 3/4" LTs, or 1 1/2" LTs. You might find some combo of stock 351w manifolds that can be ground to fit, but I wouldn't know about that. The Summit "Stage X" intakes have been posted about too. The pics put up looked like a kindergartener cast the thing. The ports were misaligned, everything/everywhere was extremely rough and uneven. I wanted a Stage 2, but it's worth the extra few 10 dollar bills to get a well cast intake. I have even asked Summit, by phone, email, and ebay message... to click a pic of a 302 Stage 2 for me to look at close up before I bought one. They all refused, pointing back at the tiny pic you get on their site or ebay store. The cams are a different story. They are made by the same company that makes the Edelbrock cams! Was TRW, Federal Mogul before that, but they have been bought out again from what I hear. The cams are made by the same folks that make their carbs and make the Carter carbs. I can do without the carbs, but the cams are same-same and even have the same specs.
The Lightning 351's had flat tappet cams. Even after the roller blocks came out in 1994. Roller block casting numbers are F4TE. The roller 351's were phased in starting in 94, not all had rollers from the get go, even with the roller blocks.
