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<p>One note of caution on the Remflex gaskets. The pre-made ones
have holes for the intakes that are - to me - too large for the
narrow sealing surface of my weber cannon manifold. I buy uncut
material from them and then cut to size using a sharp knife. That
way the intake holes are exactly the same ID as the holes in the
head and I get max sealing surface. I think they are fine for
stock intake manifolds.</p>
<p>I asked them about making ones with smaller holes and they were
willing to do that if I paid the tooling costs (which weren't
horrible). I declined and just make my own gaskets.</p>
<p>I am a big fan of their gaskets. They are not reusable generally
if you care about that (I don't).</p>
<p>If you look at the picture shared of the blown out gasket you can
see that the lower flange of the intake manifold had very little
overlap with the gasket.<br>
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<p>Cheers, Tony Drews<br>
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Phil… pretty sure you are correct on the mis-match of clamping,
headers are a mess, intakes ok. All sealing surfaces are good
& flat. Going to start from scratch. Remflex gaskets, nice 3/8
shoulder bolts I have, fab new cross clamps, service headers even
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<div dir="ltr">Getting to the two bottom nuts gets even
more difficult when you add a support bracketing to take the
place of the OEM bolting of the intake to the
exhaust manifold that we lose when using a header, thus it
is easier to get it wrong.</div>
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<p>My money is on this one... Blowing out the bottom of
the intake gaskets means you didn't get nearly enough
pressure (if any) from that pesky lower mounting stud
and clamp. I have found if you use anything other than
a stock intake manifold and stock exhaust manifold,
you must scrutinize the area where the clamps will sit
to ensure the height is very similar. Or, modify the
clamps by welding on something to make sure when the
clamp rests on the appropriate bits of the intake and
exhaust manifold, when the nut is tightened it puts
equal pressure on both manifolds. Obviously, the
mounting face on each manifold needs to be flat.
Assuming you have everything in order, there is no
reason a stock manifold gasket will not work, I have
run them when I could not get my hands on the HD
gaskets and they worked fine for me. </p>
<p>Last thought, the nuts that hold the manifolds on are
notorious for loosening up in time, and especially
after the first few heat cycles. And with everything
installed, getting to the two bottom nuts can be a
pain. But, failure to keep them properly torqued leads
to blown out gaskets.</p>
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<div dir="ltr"> another possible cause is a mis
match in the thicknesses of the intake and
exhaust manifold flanges.</div>
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