Hey guys, I just put a brand new set of AFR 195 Eliminator heads on my 1985 Corvette. The car has 105k miles on it on the stock bottom end.

The cylinder walls looked good, when I changed my cam a few months ago the cam had average wear, when I changed the oil pan gasket the bottom end was magnificent, and the rear gears had no scratches or chips at all when I changed to 3.75s.

My question is though, I used a Fel Pro 1094 head gasket on a non decked surface. I cleaned the surface with a cookie and a scuff pad.

Will I have any problems with this gasket? It is a rubber coated steel shim gasket that is 0.015" thick.

There wasn't any gouges in the surface at all.

I have attached a picture of the deck.

Thanks for any advice!

 

I put this gasket on my non decked 383

http://www.summitracing.com/int/part...make/chevrolet

I ran many bottles on nitrous through it with no problems to the head gasket.

I don't have experience with a coated gasket

 

Those scuffy pads are sure tuff on deck surfaces I have seen more deck ruined using those.

I would use the recommended head gasket AFR wants you to use which I believe is the 1003.