Thread: FE Head Gaskets
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Old 11-01-2007, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Danr55
Dave, I've just finished "working" on my motor and one of the jobs was to replace the head gasket. I used Cometic gaskets thanks to advice from Keith Craft. I was trying to reduce compression on a 351C from 11.5:1. Went with an .080 thick gasket from Cometic. It went together well and seems to be working great. The extra thickness seems to have reduced compression to about 10.7:1.
But, that will affect your quench area, whatever performance effect it will have I don;t know.
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