I'll measure the studs that came with my Hughes kit tomorrow, they worked fine with my Edelbrocks. You guys that they are to long for, what do your's measure?
I didn't measure the stud length or the the hole depth.
What happens is that the threads on the top part of the stud don't go down far enough so the nut can not be tightened. Guess you could run a die down and cut some more threads. I didn't really feel like getting involved in fastener modification though.
I understand and sympathize with the situation here though - it's annoying and frustrating to get to this point and find the stupid stud is 'wrong'.
Can it be 'fixed'? Of course.
Thing is, you buy the kit thinking that it's gonna work since it was designed for this particular application only to find it doesn't.