Reply To: Head Gasket Material

[Fastwin18]

In my experience it’s easy to cut the cylinder holes with an exacto knife.
The water holes are usually identical in size, I’ve used the nearest oversized hollow punch to punch these for my TD-20. In my case the bolt holes were also the same size so I had to punch a lot, but the punch made for easy work. It just took a couple of minutes.
Personally I would not skimp on the number of holes, after all they are there for a reason. I always try for my gaskets to be as close to the original as possible. Besides, the extra time spent is nothing compared to the time it would take to change your head gasket a second time around after you find it is overheating.