Sorry in advance if this is confusing
Here's what Ive got - heads & block have the steam passage holes.
I have two Performer RPM intakes, one with the rear water crossover, one without.
Only problem with the one with the crossover is it has some strange pipe-fitting in the heater hose return hole that I can't get out. I have no idea how it got in there, it's completely round save for the threads
Anyways, I'm swapping my heads out on my 302, I noticed while running my old setup that it got hot in a hurry (non-crossover intake) Not to the overheating point, but it didn't like me to put my foot into it.
I pulled the heads today, and the thing that cofused me was the head gaskets were not open in the front where they were in the back for the steam-holes. I know that the water will still get through the block etc, but if the front was blocked up by the gasket and the back hole was not there on this intake, wouldn't that cause a severe lack of flow?
Should I cut the holes in the front of the gaskets or leave them be? If by some miracle I can get that fitting out of the other intake, would the rear crossover help cooling enough to be worth using?
I may just be putting too much thought into this, I just want to get it together good this time so I don't need to do another tear-down in the next 5-10 years
Here's what Ive got - heads & block have the steam passage holes.
I have two Performer RPM intakes, one with the rear water crossover, one without.
Only problem with the one with the crossover is it has some strange pipe-fitting in the heater hose return hole that I can't get out. I have no idea how it got in there, it's completely round save for the threads
Anyways, I'm swapping my heads out on my 302, I noticed while running my old setup that it got hot in a hurry (non-crossover intake) Not to the overheating point, but it didn't like me to put my foot into it.
I pulled the heads today, and the thing that cofused me was the head gaskets were not open in the front where they were in the back for the steam-holes. I know that the water will still get through the block etc, but if the front was blocked up by the gasket and the back hole was not there on this intake, wouldn't that cause a severe lack of flow?
Should I cut the holes in the front of the gaskets or leave them be? If by some miracle I can get that fitting out of the other intake, would the rear crossover help cooling enough to be worth using?
I may just be putting too much thought into this, I just want to get it together good this time so I don't need to do another tear-down in the next 5-10 years