Are 440 intake gaskets needed w pan?

[Dodgerdallas]

Got a Eddy RPM intake goin on the 440 and wondering if I need gaskets on top/bottom of the pan or at all,Ive heard both...anybody got a suggestion?

[Cooter]

I do not, but I DO use sealer on BOTH SIDES in order to keep oil from making a mess.

[Dodgerdallas]

What just around the ports?

[2Luke2]

What kind of sealer haha... we were about to throw ours on today, but it was so ugly just the plain color so we had to paint it first.

[Dodgerdallas]

Mines pretty and shiney !

[cudaken]

My self, for decades I only seal the front and rear valley pan rails. Maybe I have just been luck?  I had one brass plated Just to make it pretty. and used over and over for about 10 years!

Cuda Ken

[Dodgerdallas]

Cool never heard o that

[Cooter]

What just around the ports?

Yes, and I even go so far as to put some on the threads of the intake bolts, along the front and rear of block rails too.

[69wannabe]

I have never used the paper gaskets that come with the valley pan. I have used a thin layer of silicone on the front and back and around the ports and sometimes I use Indian head shellac around the ports. Just depends on what I can find on the work table first and if i'm bout out of silicone.