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Before putting the copper headgaskets on I matched them up to the stock gaskets and they were identicle.
DaveC: The spring heights I believe are the same but the rates are different on the intake springs only. I replaced those with Type II springs. Additionally I took an entire Type II rocker arm assembly and bolted it up.
E.K.: Unless my block is badly warped, which I checked with a straight edge and it seemed ok, they should be sealing good. When I installed them I used this FelPro gasket sealer. It's pretty much like contact cement in a can designed for high temperatures and liquids. That should have helped seal everything into place. It was quite strong. I used that stuff to hold this little gaskets in place.
Another indication that it may have been those smaller gasket inserts is for the first 5 minutes the cams and rockers were ticking so loud you couldn't hold a conversation. Now I had prelubed everything so I didn't do any damage but it took a good 5 minutes to get them to quite down, as if the oil may have been blocked by those gaskets and then they were shoved otu of the way. I turned the engine off shortly after that which would have prevented me from finding my anti-freeze problem.
The car is at my parents place right now, I can't work on it till the weekend. I am dying to find out what happened...
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