Rick,
I installed the SCE Titan gasket dry, as per Mfg instructions.
I believe that the
oil leaks out where the
oil return opening on the head meets the block, finding its way out around the silicon beads along the outer edge. Anyway, the heads are going to come off one of these days and I will see what is happening. I'll try to have a set of Felpro 1020 at hand when I do that, in case I have to dump the SCE Titans.(which claim to be reusable).
When I had the heads shaved they took off 0.020", and the SCE gasket installed is 0.061 instead of the usual 0.040 compressed thicknes to make up for that. Felpro does not have a 0.060 thick gasket. Only Cometic can make them as far as I have seen. Dont't know it those 20 thou make much difference. From the compression calculator compression would go from 9.8 to 10.2.
I did fill some more
oil , about a quart more , into the engine and had incredible oil smoke comming out off the exhaust at idle, which dissappeared when revs would go up. At a certain point it stopped smoking, , and that was when the oil level reached the upper full mark on the oil dipstick.
The car ran fine, compression very good, no water leaks,
It is just a big PITA taking all the Weber setup off and getting those lower rear head nuts off.
