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Old Apr 18, 2005 | 06:19 PM
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Default What is the compressed thickness of the LS2 head gasket?

Is it thicker or thinner than the truck 6.0 gasket? Or, is it the same?
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Interesting..... is the LS2 gasket graphite or MLS?

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Interesting..... is the LS2 gasket graphite or MLS?

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yeah I want to know that, also. I would assume MLS, but some people think the graphite ones seal better...
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pluggin the the spec's you'll need a gasket thickness of ~.060 to achieve the 10.9 CR.
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ahhh the old reverse-engineering calculation method. thanks, JRP. So that's about as thick as the truck gasket, yeah? Is it MLS?
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ya, its looking to be about as thick as the truck gasket, more or less depending the spec's you use (exact or rounding up/down). i'd wager MLS, from my knowledge they havent used graphite since 97 - 98.
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