Which head gaskets?
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Re: Which head gaskets?
Depends on what your doing with the truck. If your going for a nice running stocker the factory still can get you the stock style head gaskets and they are not expensive.
If your goin go push the limits plan on getting the Cometic's and paying about a 100.00 a head geasket.
Don't bother with Felpro... the have NOTHING for our trucks in the headgasket department.
Give Waller a call he's got the cometic's in stock.
Good luck,
Scottt~
Depends on what your doing with the truck. If your going for a nice running stocker the factory still can get you the stock style head gaskets and they are not expensive.
If your goin go push the limits plan on getting the Cometic's and paying about a 100.00 a head geasket.
Don't bother with Felpro... the have NOTHING for our trucks in the headgasket department.
Give Waller a call he's got the cometic's in stock.
Good luck,
Scottt~
heavy breather
FBI enforcer
Re: Which head gaskets?
I run the GM units...just dont let the tune get outta hand and they'll be fine.
I run the GM units...just dont let the tune get outta hand and they'll be fine.
Tooky
Serious about performance
Re: Which head gaskets?
I have both Cometics and Victors (stock) and I'm trying to decide which to use. I'm leaning strongly towards the Victors because my block is stock and the deck will only be scraped the best I can with a gasket scraper. Cometic specifies a "RA 50" surface smoothness or better. I just talked to the machinist at the machine shop today about this and he said they do a lot of Cometics on turbo apps but will occasionally get water leaks out the side of the block (not into the oil). I have heard this same thing everywhere I ask about Cometics, sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you aren't. Les Young (100in6 on this board) said the same thing about his Cometics from what I recollect.
The victors that came on my truck from the factory have lasted to 27 PSI sustained including a few "mistakes" where I maxxed out a 30 PSI boost gauge. I will probably do the Victors on my factory block, and switch to Cometics when I rebuild the engine and get a chance to machine the deck to that RA50 smoothness.
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I have both Cometics and Victors (stock) and I'm trying to decide which to use. I'm leaning strongly towards the Victors because my block is stock and the deck will only be scraped the best I can with a gasket scraper. Cometic specifies a "RA 50" surface smoothness or better. I just talked to the machinist at the machine shop today about this and he said they do a lot of Cometics on turbo apps but will occasionally get water leaks out the side of the block (not into the oil). I have heard this same thing everywhere I ask about Cometics, sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you aren't. Les Young (100in6 on this board) said the same thing about his Cometics from what I recollect.
The victors that came on my truck from the factory have lasted to 27 PSI sustained including a few "mistakes" where I maxxed out a 30 PSI boost gauge. I will probably do the Victors on my factory block, and switch to Cometics when I rebuild the engine and get a chance to machine the deck to that RA50 smoothness.
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