Header gaskets that actually seal?

Still hunting down my tick/tapping noise, I thought I would double gasket my headers to see if any noise disappears

The headers are heddman elites, so thick flange...but there might be a leak...I dunno.

I don't think they leak, but it's worth a shot. I am trying everything before I need to pull the motor to poke around and see what I can find....

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I use the cheap white paper mr. gasket ones, but I put some effort into making the welded bead sealing surface on the header as flat as I could get it. Easy to do if the headers aren't in the car already.....

What you can try is to add a thin smear of hi-temp copper rtv sealer to ANY brand of gasket to make them seal. The only drawback is it can be messy and time consuming to clean the old rtv off later on down the road.

The most bullet proof setup I know of is using copper header gaskets, and the copper rtv at the same time. Pretty much no way to hurt the copper gaskets and all you have to do is wire brush the old copper rtv off and apply a new coating if you ever have to take it apart.

if it is a headers gasket sealing problem - REMFLEX.COM is the only way to go.

but them from amazon to save a ton, but they will seal it for sure!

NAPA NITRO SEALS are the best I have found. they are made with a lot of graphie and a soft enough to fill any imperfections. you can put them in the flame of a cutting torch and they will not burn.

from the pics Iv seen they look a lot like Rimflex gaskets..

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I put some effort into making the welded bead sealing surface on the header as flat as I could get it.

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X2, that first