I'm starting to stress a little now I have been only at about 20 psi till now in a couple of weeks I am doing a retune with about the same boost 35-38. I had a cometic gasket but after hot lapping at the drags because it was origin night 8 passes in like 2 hours it started to push water out so I out with motor straightened the head and decked the block I used a mls permaseal gasket and I haven't had a problem I even reused it once while the engine was getting machined I got a wrecker bottom end so I could keep racing and had no problems then so fingers crossed the new one can handle the boost fingers crossed

Quote: Originally Posted by GM-087 [View Post] can you get stronger 11mm studs ??? arp do L19 series studs but I don't think they come in the correct lengths for our engines. how much grunter?? pm me haha

I can get them in the correct length... I will get the price for you.

It worked out cheaper for me to go half inch studs than it was to buy l19, but I had the engine out already.. If you don't wanna pull engine then l19 makes sense. In saying that rips swear by using 11mm studs in all their engines... As do many people.