ImportLabSRT, thanks very much. I will call you tomorrow.

Cruzin, you shamed me into it. I attacked my SSB and pulled the gasket off of it. I think she feels violated.... I really didnt want to take the SSB apart to do this but I am down to the wire to get a track run in.

I quickly slapped it on to the Aero and started putting things back together. I got a set of the NW gaskets thanks to BrianBrave and Rob to put between the mani's and the 6mm phenolics. I had some trouble lining things up with all those moving parts so I took Rob's advice and got some Permatex and stuck the two spacers to either side of the phenolic. Then I stopped. The port holes on the gaskets were bigger than the ports on the phenolics. And they overlapped the outside of the phenolics. I didnt like the coverage I was getting of the gasket on the phenolics so I pulled them back off and cleaned up the spacer. You can see the outline of the phenolics on the gaskets. You can also see from the side shot how much overlap there was on the outside. It looked like there was about 60% or 70% coverage of gasket on the phenolic. The phenolics are almost exactly the size of the manifold ports. Porting for these will be a snap. Almost no metal to move.

I will go with the gaskets that came with the spacers and put the mani's on tomorrow. If everything works out, I might be able to make it to the track tomorrow night.

MikeR