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Old Jan 29, 2016 | 07:52 PM
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Wen should I be worried about my stock ls2 head gaskets this is a f/I car
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When they leak
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When they leak
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Enough said
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Great info lol.
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The specificity is overwhelming
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Lol.just wasn't sure if I had to much boost on the oem gaskets n bolts
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How much boost are you running?

Knock will cause some serious cylinder pressure spikes and kill gaskets (or pistons). So, avoid knock/too much timing and that will help a lot.
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13.5 after my ethanol tune is finished it will prob be 14 or so
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Ethanol will help
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Flex fuel car. I prefer to only ethanol anyway
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Yeah the flex fuel setups are really nice. Been thinking about doing it on mine but I've got a setup I built that is using the ECM's flex fuel input to change timing based on methanol system pressure, so I'd have to ditch that if I went to a "regular" flex fuel setup. Kind of a "failsafe" instead of trying to use the IAT as one
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Yeah I did my own flex fuel setup .e85 is alot better then meth I'd say
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If the engine is stock the pistons will probably go before the gaskets will.
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