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VERY interesting thread on leaks with Cometic gaskets and 5.3L heads on a Corvette

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Old 02-10-2003 | 07:39 AM
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Default VERY interesting thread on leaks with Cometic gaskets and 5.3L heads on a Corvette

I thought this was very informative, and thought some of you might be interested in reading it, there are several picture swith it also....

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=489800
Old 02-10-2003 | 09:41 AM
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Default Re: VERY interesting thread on leaks with Cometic gaskets and 5.3L heads on a Corvette

this could explain my small leak i have on my cometic gaskets, i jjust thought i needed to tighted the bolts down a little further.

Ill have to look and see, who knows this might also be the cause of my oil problems.
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Default Re: VERY interesting thread on leaks with Cometic gaskets and 5.3L heads on a Corvette

So if I was swapping my heads from my stock 5.7s to my new 6.0 castings on an FI app, what gasket should I use? I don't want to go thru all this crap. Will the GM gasket work to 15psi?
Are there more head gaskets available to us other than the leak prone Cometics?
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