Hey folks, just bought my first boat at the beginning of this season. "Man! is my family hooked". Im at the river or the lake damn near every other weekend and we still cant seem to get enough. Well now that the season is getting close to an end Im coming up with ideas to increase the performance of my boat. One problem I am having is that I replaced the gaskets on my elelbrock logs in June and I have already burnt through the gasket and leaking exhaust. Is the log possibly warped or do I need to use a wet style gasket to solve this problem. The headers are individually spaced instead of a uni-body design at the attachment point, and Im not so keen on that idea. Alot of the replacement logs I have looked at are of the one piece design, seems to me it would be stronger with less chance for leakage. Anybody got any ideas would be appeciated.
You didn't say what engine you are using, I have a 455 with Hardin manifolds. I ended up using two stock gaskets sandwiched together and a liberal dose of high temp orange RTV holding it all together.
On my BB Mopars, the only thing that has worked is copper gaskets with the high temp orange RTV on both sides again.
You can reuse this setup, and any leaks that happen are gone with a quick torque on the bolt 'cause the copper won't burn out.