Follow along as I show you the good, better, and best on gaskets to build your street 429/460 Ford engine. Including some gaskets you may never of heard of before!
Great information, last time I built an engine was in the late 80s, felpro was my go to back then but I see now better options in some cases, thank you Sir 👍😁
I've had some substandard satisfaction using felpro timing cover gaskets, water pump, thermostat housing gaskets. I found they don't hold up all that well compared to victor or OE gaskets. I found out the hard way if you run a coolant with 2-EHA those Felpro timing cover, water pump and thermostat gaskets don't stand a chance. I had to replace them all a few times until I figured out the coolant was causing the problem with gasket degradation. One thing I will say about head gaskets, is I bought a reman 351W long block for a good deal for my truck and took the heads off since I'm gonna reuse my Edelbrock heads off my old engine. I thought the victor head gaskets that came off looked a bit thick. Yeah, .074" thick after they were compressed once. I had no idea you could even get a head gasket that thick lol.
I’ve had some of the thermostat housing gaskets actually weep thru the gasket. Outside of custom made head gaskets, I didn’t know they made them that thick either! Lol
I believe the 1979 and up block started using the smaller bolts in the timing cover. I'll have to look to make sure because I don't want to tell you wrong
Having it welded up would be the best thing. I’ve heard of people using that ceramic stuff for wood stoves and filling them up but I’m always afraid of using stuff like that because if it comes loose you are in trouble when it gets into the cylinders
Scotty and Paul Kane over on the ford 460 forum sell a cheap laser cut block off plate that works with fel-pro gaskets. It is slightly bigger than the exhaust crossover port but thin enough to not affect intake gasket seal.
I've used them in many many different builds and never had a problem out of them. Like that rear main seal. That is a Ford seal in the box, so they was the OE supplier at one time to Ford for that rear main seal.
