5.9L Magnum build with questions

Good to heat things are starting to move along for you. If thats the intake you are going to run you should look into having the carb flange turned into a true 4150 flange. Supposed to be a decent increase in power. Theres a few threads around here documenting this.
I’m glad you brought that up, I was just talking to a machinist buddy last night about that. I will be opening up the flange area and blending a radius into the opening below the flange. I’m going to gasket match the ports once the gaskets and heads arrive. I forgot to mention I filed the ring gap bigger so I can run some nitrous or boost in the future.