dantheman345

I am using this gasket kit. http://store.summitracing.com/partde...p;autoview=sku

and have torqued down the heads with the gaskets but then a friend told me I must use a copper gasket with aluminum heads?? I am also not sure if the above gasket kit is copper or steel.

my77stang

your fine, you dont "need" a high end copper gasket

jtmustang

i am curios to i am goin to be runnin trickflow's and some people say yes on copper ?? do u have to or not and why thanks jason

jtmustang

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aode08

NO DO NOT USE COPPER.

they are thick, expensive,lower compression, and can become a pain to seal.

dantheman345

A little confused. So are the gaskets I have copper? And if they are steel is it okay to use them?

thunderjet429

well ... the gasket you should use has a copper wire fire ring instead of steel.. it's not that the gasket is copperhowever felpro makes a preflattened steel fire ring gasket that minimizes brineling....you can use plan gaskets BUT it WILL brinell the head.. meaning it will put a mark in your new alluminum head where the fire ring isi prefer using the copper wire gasket that eliminates marring the head part number 1011-2.

2 kwik

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thunderjet429

my 1011-2's were 36.00 ea so i would say those are steal because the kit is so cheapfelpro makes the gasket i use