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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 06:24 PM
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Default Pacesetters ?? with copper gasket??

I hear the pacesettr LT's come with a copper gasket now... is this true? is it better? any one have experience with it?
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 07:19 PM
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I've always heard to stay away from the copper
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 08:18 PM
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Mine came with the copper gaskets.I installed them and they seem to be fine now after 2 months.
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 08:22 PM
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I just reused my stock gaskets, my pacesetters came with paper gaskets though.
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 08:31 PM
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Mine came with copper gaskets. I have had them on for about 3 months. No problems yet. I rechecked the bolts after about 2 weeks and all were still tight. No problems yet.
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 08:34 PM
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i got mine about 2 months ago. they came with paper gaskets. i went to autozone and got felpro metal gaskets for 10 bucks. they look 10 times better than the stock metal ones. mine were falling apart anyways when i took them off.
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 08:55 PM
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I got my Pacesetters from TSP last September and they came with nice copper gaskets. I had already purchased new stock gaskets so I went with those but I debated about it cause the copper ones did look pretty good. I guess it must depend where you are getting them from because they did switch to copper gaskets last Summer. Whoever has 'old' stock of the Pacesetters has the crappy paper ones.
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 09:56 PM
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I just reused the stock one; headers were installed over a year ago and no problems yet.
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My pacesetters came with copper gaskets and they have been good so far.
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mine came with the paper gaskets,but I bought the gm gaskets so we'll see how they turn out,im installing the lts this weekend
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