So the past two intake gasket sets I bought I noticed two things, 1 is that they don't give you the right EGR gasket for egr to manifold/header, and 2 the LIM gaskets require you to seal the front and back of the intake to the block with black RTV, and it recently occurred to me, will that even hold up to even a little bit of boost????..
When I bought my first set last year, it included an EGR gasket that fit just fine, and I THINK(can't recall for sure) that the LIM gaskets each had a half tab that came across at the back and front that required no black rtv as the sole gasket material there..
Anyone else experiencing these problems or know anything about it or wth is going on??

 

I've bought several FelPro MS-93020 gasket kits and NONE of them came with the right EGR to manifold gasket. Neither did they have a one-piece intake manifold gasket that does away with the RTV, which is included in the package.

I seriously doubt you'll need to worry about boost blowing out the RTV at the ends of the block... You shouldn't be getting boost into the internal parts of the engine (cam chamber and lifter valley).

 

Well glad I'm not the only one, and on the EGR note, would like to hear how other people are dealing with that gasket...going to make my EGR block off plates next time I work on my car and will want to do something better than what I did, I guess I might just have to buy some gasket material and make the gaskets as well, hell if I go that route I might make as many I can out of the gasket sheet and sell them for like a buck or two each if anyone is interested, just to get the cost of the excess gasket material back.....
On the bright side of things I just had an interview at pepboys, hopefully I get hired and will finally have more than chump change to put into my car, in fact if I get hired I'll make as many gaskets as the material allows and send one to anyone who wants one for the cost of shipping, can't be much since it would fit an envelope and isn't heavy, probably less than 1$.

 

Funny thing is that I just found the last piece of that printing plate... Bad news is that I don't know if I have enough for the one EGR valve I have much less anything else .

As for the gaskets, do make sure to use the graphite-based gasket material and not the cheap paper everyone else has (in bulk) for exhaust gaskets. The paper won't hold up to the temps. It's meant more for things like the timing cover, water pump, oil filter adaptor, etc.

 

Strangely it seemed all the gasket material I found said it was for exhaust...When I was looking it it, was for my fuel tank hatch, still will be, also have to get some more resin as I seriously doubt that one layer of resin and mat will be as strong or rigid as I want, but Idk because I haven't seen it dried yet...

 

If the gasket material is solid black/dark gray, it's paper (basically like the rest of the gaskets for the plenum and TB in an intake set). If it looks like the EGR gasket you find in the intake gasket set, you're good to go, because it's the graphite stuff (basically pencil material).