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Now that I've seen the above-pictured results I've decided to change to the 41mm copper Delkevic-supplied gaskets. I live in Denver, 11 miles away from Delkevic and Matt (at Delkevic) has told me (via email) that I can order and pay for them at their online store and then drive over to pick them up in person at Delkevic in Littleton, CO.

As I mentioned I'm concerned about the part of the circumference where the 42mm copper gasket was bowing a bit out-of-round as I was using my fingers to press-fit the gasket into the cylinder head ports. No, not overthinking here, I'm going to come to a decision on this purely from the evidence provided by visual confirmation tomorrow when I remove the exhaust system. I'll take some pictures of the gaskets in the ports tomorrow after I've removed the exhaust system. We'll see if the bowing-out resulted in and area where there's only a thin bit of the gasket crushed under the header. And we'll see how close to the inner edge of the cylinder head exhaust port the 42mm gasket comes after being crushed in the install process.

This was my center stand stop solution.