Anyone have experience in using this gasket on non R block engines and standard heads with .060" bore?
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Why not use a factory correct R2 one piece thin beaded steel gasket for same as stock compression before you ported the heads, or the stock thick sandwich aluminum one for '55 and '56 Compression 1/2 a point lower.
This appears to be one of those new Best Gasket reproduction BLACK perforated material gaskets that will give a 1/4 point decrease from a thin stock steel gasket.
The .060 overbore should not affect any standard 289 gasket.
StudeRich at Studebakers Northwest -Ferndale,WAStudeRich
Second Generation Stude Driver,
Proud '54 Starliner Owner
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Was concerned about the water sealing around the 3/8 hole that is in the block and head. And any experience + Or - with the copper fireline sealing. If there are no issues this gasket would allow more unshrouding of the chamber to valve wall over the standard gasket. Have used the standard thick and thin gaskets with no issues on .060" bores but it limits the unshrouding potential.Start and Stage Your StudebakersComment
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Unshrouding...?
What did you do to cause the chamber to overhang the stock gasket?
Other than the valve clearance notches in the chamber overhanging the bore, they should not overhang a stock gasket.
If you've worked the chamber to overhang the stock gasket....depending on exactly what you've done...you may have problems with the R3 gasket also. The R3 gasket chamber (in the valve notch area) and the stock head...do not line up properly.
I've been fighting this since I moved the intake valves over.
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