Steel intake gasket

That's not his problem...he used these shim gaskets with an aluminum intake against the advice of several people here. These are to be used with cast iron intakes only. Use composite (FelPro,etc.) ones with aluminum intakes.

LOL, gotcha. I saw something about machine work, thought it might be what I mentioned above on top of the obvious wrong choice in gaskets...no biggie, carry on :)