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It will help a little but ultimately at that kind of power level it doesn't take much for something to go, be it pistons valves or whatever. If you are one of those people who has that much power for bragging rights and rarely uses it then you may enjoy higher power for years but personally I can't see any point in having a powerful car if you are not going to use it properly.

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Thick gaskets and decompression plate are a bad idea.

They alter the factory squish zones and can cause more detonation then having the factory compression ratio which may be higher.

Be careful if you got that way.

lol can you explain to me what you mean by squish zone?

and 300 buks or so for head gasket is a lot cheaper than getting forgies lol, it is all i can afford at the moment...

may get forgies later on tho, will see how it goes...

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