Lay that 1009 Head Gasket on your head and line up the head bolt holes to make sure the fire ring isn’t in the chamber. That’s been an issue with that gasket at times.

1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.42@138.27

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