uh oh..... set back. water in oil

There's your problem, aluminum intakes don't work with stamped sheetmetal gaskets, they must be fiber. Metal gaskets are for iron intakes on iron heads only. The intake gaskets need to be designed to handle the different heat expansion rates of iron vs aluminum.


This ^^^^^^^^^^^^

You can get LUCKY using a tin gasket on an aluminum intake and have it seal, but the intake face and head face better be damn clean, perfectly straight, flat and the manifold has to fit correctly.

Otherwise, they don't deal well.