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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ryclef331" data-source="post: 432662" data-attributes="member: 8067">Where at? Autozone? it stands for muli-layered steel...and the reason for a thicker gasket is to compensate for clearances. YES, you can drop compression by adding a thicker gasket however, you also sacrifice your quench area....in other words, the combustion process isn't contrain in the combustion chamber upon initiation like it should be. Look at the shape of most chambers on a cylinder head, they're not round. THey have a flat spot. That flat portion is designed to meet up as close as possible with the flat portion of a piston to push the intake charge into the chamber area. That distance between the piston face and cylinder is called your quench area. You add thicker gaskets and you will lose power not only b/c of a loss of compression but b/c of poor quench area. It can cause hot spots as well and that will in turn cause detonation. Thicker head gaskets are a band-aid way to bump compression....but hey...Welcome to the site!</blockquote>