Check the "new" Fel-Pro Printoseal gaskets if you like that particular brand. After I told Fel-Pro about my (and others) failures, they started putting a steel sandwich reinforcement inside to get rid of the short-life-on-the-street problem. I think the new version has a part number ending in "s" or something like that...
I used silicon - on a 460 - and no problems yet.
I used the Victor Reinz - the revised Printoseals weren't out yet.
Here's an earlier thread about this:
Intake gasket droop
