Popping noise

So I am finally done wiring my car after the choke wire shorted out an basically burnt up the engine harness. When this happened it caused my engine to back fire pretty hard. I know have a slight popping noise coming from what i thought was the carb. When I put my head over the carb the noise then sounds like it is coming form the intake gasket on the drivers side. My thought it that it possibly blew the gasket out near the exhaust cross over. The engine runs smooth and the exhaust sounds fine. I just don't want to make things worse buy driving the car around. Any body ever had this issue or have any ideas?