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I mis-understood the instructions and torqued all the 7/16 head bolts to 85lbsft. I believe they were refering to cast iron with 30wt oil now not aluminum. I know the manual says one torque figure, AFR says 70/80 lbft., and ARP says 60lbft.
So do I:
a - leave them alone?
B - loosen and retorque bolts?
c - buy new head gaskets and do it over?

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If you do loosen them all the way, you'll need new head gaaskets. I would leave it where it is.
 

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Leave them like this.
 

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I think it's absolutely safe to back them down (not fully lose) to about 50 ft-lbs, then pull them back up to 60 if you're worried thay you overtorqued.

But I'll tell you, most folks either ignore or don't like/trust that ARP aluminum head torque figure, and they torque them on up to 70 or 75. I torqued mine to 60 ft-lbs. as the ARP instructions suggested - 18 months/10K miles ago. Note - that torque spec is for moly lube. If you used oil, I'd definitely leave them where they are. For some reason ARP doesn't list a spec for aluminum heads and threads lubed with oil, but if you interpolate their other data, they ought to be around 70 on aluminum heads threads lubed with oil.
 
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