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So I took it apart, and discovered the gaskets are coming apart, as in the two layers are separating. It's the whole gasket, not just a top issue. Where I used rtv on the cylinder head and around the water jacket ports seems to be fine. Before it got dark I took a digital angle finder and...

My felpro's are .040, so my alignment should still be alright, and makes sense to why nothing has caught my eye before. It's just a matter of checking the angles and making sure the machine shop milled the heads square and the intake angles were manufactured correctly. As well as making sure...

0.010", which shouldn't be too much of a difference. Everything still seemed to line up fine, at least enough not for me to be concerned about it at the time

I'll pull a bolt and check the hole alignment before I do anything, that should help tell something

So as I understand milling the intake side is mainly just for port and bolt alignment, for the most part?

No backfires through the intake that I can remember. I had a big one in the exhaust when I missed judged a downshift at the end of a run at test and tune, but that's been it

I was thinking it would only cause am issue on the bottom side with that. That or I didn't set and tighten the manifold down correctly. I guess I'll figure that part out when I take it apart

Hopefully the heads were milled correctly, it was done at a pretty reputable shop. My father has an endmill so if the angles end up being a bit crazy I'll be sure their perfect before it goes back together.

It has to be just slowly wedging itself out, I'll see how indented the gasket is when I pull it apart

I have an la 360 with magnum heads, and an edelbrock rpm airgap manifold. It is pushing out the gaskets/not clamping tight at the top, using the edelbrock 7277 gaskets. Intake was installed new in March, gaskets replaced in late August and need to be replaced again now. gap at top is large...