460 Intake gasket

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Mar 13, 2002 | 10:30 AM

68FORD

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460 Intake gasket

I am doing a buil-up on a mid 70's 460 to put in my 68 F-100 2WD SWB. The parts store gave me a metal valley pan for intake gasket. But performance shop is showing the regular type cardboard/metal gasket. Which one should I use? Is one better than the other for performance or reliability?

Also what do you use to plug the smog pump tubes on the heads?

Thanks in advance for any info.

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Mar 13, 2002 | 04:29 PM

Ford79

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460 Intake gasket

The metal valley pan is to keep hot oil off the bottom of the intake, I believe. I don't know which is better. I've put motors together both ways(with and w/o valley pan). As far as the smog holes go, any auto parts store should have the right size expansion plug to fit the holes in the heads.