It might help. The real key is port alignment. That's what Steve was talking about. Here's a down and dirty on that.
1 - Center the gasket on the intake. Mark four places on the gasket and matching marks on the intake. You want these on the top front, top back, front middle and back middle. Pardon my ASCII art but like this-
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This will give you marks to keep it level, front to back and top to bottom.
2 - Take that same gasket and center it on your heads and make the same marks on the heads to match the ones on your gasket.
3 - Now comes the fun part. Make all the marks line up. You might not be perfect but get them as close as possible. This will give you your port alignment.
Cutting off the water crossover is the only way to go. This lets it pull forward independent of the intake and get a proper seal with the water pump while NOT pulling the intake ports out of alignment. Does that make sense?
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12.84 @ 106.89 with street radials.
12.63 @ 108.39 on drag radials.
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