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Anyone make extra thick intake gaskets or spacers? Maybe .25, intake sits to low.

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Old 01-25-2009 | 02:39 PM
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Anyone make extra thick intake gaskets or spacers? Maybe .25, intake sits to low.

As stated in title, intake has alway sat to low, probably due to tpis having to weld and remachine my intake after cutting water passage to low, ruinning my engine years ago.. Gotta love them!
Anyway, sits to low, I have double 1/8 gaskets, but they always seperate between ports after some use.. Ports are almost 1/8" to low sitting in comparrison to my afr heads.. Maybe an intake gasket spacer? I can't find anything.

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Re: Anyone make extra thick intake gaskets or spacers? Maybe .25, intake sits to low.

Felpro makes double thick intake gaskets.
Old 02-01-2009 | 04:17 PM
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Re: Anyone make extra thick intake gaskets or spacers? Maybe .25, intake sits to low.

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Felpro makes double thick intake gaskets.
Thanks, they are just under 1/8" though at .120", I need thicker than that.
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Re: Anyone make extra thick intake gaskets or spacers? Maybe .25, intake sits to low.

cant you have someone make a steel shim for you? then just use some RightStuff to seal it all up?
Old 02-01-2009 | 05:35 PM
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Re: Anyone make extra thick intake gaskets or spacers? Maybe .25, intake sits to low.

Originally Posted by Orr89RocZ
cant you have someone make a steel shim for you? then just use some RightStuff to seal it all up?
Thats what I was hoping to find, I would really hate to widdle one out myself, but i could I guess.
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Re: Anyone make extra thick intake gaskets or spacers? Maybe .25, intake sits to low.

lay a pattern on a piece of sheet metal and have a fab shop laser cut that out, i think Domination chassis in pittsburgh will do that
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Re: Anyone make extra thick intake gaskets or spacers? Maybe .25, intake sits to low.

I've used the fel-pro 1206 and 1266. The 1266 is thicker, but I can't rember how thick off the top of my head. You can find the thicknesses in the real fel-pro catalog. I will have to remember what site I got those off of....
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Re: Anyone make extra thick intake gaskets or spacers? Maybe .25, intake sits to low.

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I've used the fel-pro 1206 and 1266. The 1266 is thicker, but I can't rember how thick off the top of my head. You can find the thicknesses in the real fel-pro catalog. I will have to remember what site I got those off of....
Thanks, 1266 is what I took off, they are .120, I am either going to glue a 1206 and 1266, or make the spacer..
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