Now hold on a minute guys....
Call Edelbrock back and ask the guy on the line how many FE's he's built....
For crying out loud.
So if your engine has previously been running with intake gaskets and now you leave them out, think about what that does to: 1. Port alignment 2. Valve cover flanges. 3. China wall gaps. By removing the gaskets, you're dropping the intake down by about .060". That changes a lot of stuff.
You can't just leave gaskets out without taking a close look at everything. And to add to that, there's not one single FE that I've built in the past 12 years that hasn't had an intake gasket on it. The FE is the only engine where the intake ports have the opportunity to be submerged in
oil while running. You absolutely need every protection possible against this and trying to goop up the flanges in order to make it seal is only a band-aid.