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Make sure they have the stainless steel rings in the gasket.And yes the fel pros should work fine. Make sure you torque them correctly, and recheck after running a few miles.
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What year is your block? It makes a difference whether it's series-cooling or parallell-cooling as to which style of head gaskets you use.
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Well, if you use Fel-Pro's with the stainless steel ring, they will sure-as-hell leave a nice indentation in your nice, soft, expensive aluminum heads that will need to be re-surfaced next time you have the heads off. You really don't want to do that. A much better choice would be to use Cometic multi-layer gaskets. You can even get them in whatever thickness you like to maintain your compression ratio instead of that super-thick Fel-Pro. Sure, they're expensive at around $90 apiece, but I only buy the best for my cars. My two cents.
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Mark is right, and like he said you can order what ever thickness you need to set your quench right.
![]() last time I checked I thought they were about 150 a pair..cant recall the shop but they make them for the nascar boys. [ QUOTE ] Well, if you use Fel-Pro's with the stainless steel ring, they will sure-as-hell leave a nice indentation in your nice, soft, expensive aluminum heads that will need to be re-surfaced next time you have the heads off. You really don't want to do that. A much better choice would be to use Cometic multi-layer gaskets. You can even get them in whatever thickness you like to maintain your compression ratio instead of that super-thick Fel-Pro. Sure, they're expensive at around $90 apiece, but I only buy the best for my cars. My two cents. [/ QUOTE ] |
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You may be right, but we had no impressions on the heads when we took them off. We did almost torch a motor before we used them. This has been 15 years ago or so, so I expect there are better gaskets now.
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Thanks Mark I'll check them out. The block is a '69 and the heads are probably from the 70's. They don't have any dates on them.
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