Header Gasket And Locking Stud Choices?

[petey62782]

I Will Be Putting On A Set Of Gibson Shorties And I Know There Are Alot Of Gasket Companies As Well As Gasket Material Choices Also There Are Locking Studs Like Percy's Or The One Where The Tear Drop Tabs Locks Against The Header Tubes. Any Help Would Be Appreciated I Dont Want Leaks Or Have To Re-torque Them.

[DamnYankee]

Use your stock manifold gaskets.

I've always used stock manifold bolts with no issues.

[George C]

stock MLS gaskets are the best... you can use stock bolts or use the studs fro ma v6 as in 3.1

[GasGuzzler]

George.....header gaskets? What did I miss?

[DamnYankee]

Title says "header" - he prob confused it with "head"...

[GasGuzzler]

Thanks Moze. That's what a figgered but wanted to know if there is an MLS header gasket 'cause that would fix a lot of dudes' problems with cheaper headers.

[George C]

i have the stock MLS header gaskets. if you get the later ones they have larger ports for the big boy headers and heads.

[chvy=power]

the stage 8 header bolt lock kit from summit racing worked good for me. They use retainers that fits over the bolt head and locks the bolt against the header tube

[DamnYankee]

Aren't the stock manifold gaskets copper? MLS is steel...

[GasGuzzler]

No the exhaust gaskets are steel but have no giz.