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Good thinking.👍

My reply is intended to add the visuals to the reply.

As you have pointed out previously in many other posts, there are other posters here that do not know basics. Possibly even as simple as how to research head bolt markings?
The link is just intended by me to be a visual aid.

It is not intended to ignore or diminish your #10 posting. 


In your concept of this forum as being an Encyclopedic source of information, if that is so, then additional footnotes or bookmarks can't hurt to reinforce the accuracy of some replies.

Sometimes the written word can give the impression of the wrong intent which your reply clarified was meant in only a helpful way. Thank you.

Here is a page reference to identifying bolt grades according to the head markings.

In the case of this particular bolt, 5 is not the grade of strength, it happens to be a grade 5 bolt but the 5 marking does not indicate the strength. It is the manufacturers logo.

It probably was never a very appropriate logo because of the confusion that it continues to create?

https://www.fastenersuperstore.com/fastener-guides/bolt-grades-head-markings

That is what I said in reply #10 ? Thank you for the confirmation.

I don't think the number 5 in the center is the bolt grade . The 3 dash marks around the perimeter are the typical bolt grade symbols for a grade five bolt and the number 5 in the center is the makers mark. 

So why cant those be sourced locally if they are just "5"

I have to believe the hardware store has those?

They do but they will not have the assemblyline makers marks on the hardware store bolts.

These look like flanged head bolts? Are they?

No they use a loose flat washer.

Are those bolts in your picture correct?

My FE has place bolts-so I looked it up in LM MPL and for 65-72 FE's, it specs a place bolt PN 370478-S it has FORD on top. AMK has it-I think it even says FORD. Didn't Shelby use same bolts?

The picture he posted is correct for a 67 GT500 duel four. intake.  The Grade 5 with a F or the L5 are the only other ones that typically came on the 67 GT500 from the Ford engine plant where they were installed. Unless something has changed (and I hope that it has ) AMK does not sell the assemblyline looking intake bolts for the 67 GT500 intake.

AMK used to sell the L5 marked intake bolts but have run out and substitute a generic one now. 

FYI for those reading the 67 GT500 intake bolts could also have the mfg mark as a the grade five with a F in the center instead of the 5 and also the grade five with a L5 in the center.

Nice parts , but rules require prices for anything for sale. I see no prices on the spread sheet.

You must not be scanning over to seeing the middle and far right column of the wide spread sheet. The prices are there ,I can see them.

The Troll got schooled on colors car was painted by none other than CS and Bob Bondurant in recent forum CSX 2000 color thread .

  

February 1962 by a band of volunteers at the "Carroll Shelby Enterprises" Goodyear tire distributorship shop at 10820 South Norwalk Boulevard in Santa Fe Springs, California.

When CSX 2000 had arrived, the aluminum body had been left unpainted and was first brightened and polished with steel wool.

In preparation for the 1962 International Automobile Show held at the New York Coliseum on April 21-29, CSX 2000 received its first paint job in a fluorescent yellow color.

Exaggerations over the years have claimed that CSX 2000 had been repainted numerous times in the mid-months of 1962 with the hope of convincing auto magazine staff reviewers that Cobras were already in full production.

That is a good story, but the only color reported to be showing through CSX 2000's present cracked (medium-dark metallic blue) paint is the original fluorescent yellow.

How CSX 2000 Laid the Foundation for the Shelby Cobra Legend
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/how-csx-2000-laid-the-foundation-for-the-shelby-cobra-legend/

Seeing is believing. The chips in the paint on CSX2000 that I saw and the different colors paint layers within them indicated more then one repaint.

Bill is a good guy. Local to me so it was a win win to have him restore my sender..

Pat

I have heard High praise and intend to use him in the future however if you don't have a usable original core that can be made presentable to start with his service will be of no use. Sorry I do not have a good read on the repro market otherwise I would make a suggestion.

"Port-Matched"? 

      Scott.

I agree that they look larger then typical but not overly so or to a detrimental extent IMO.