If you go copper you need some sort of sealant. After going copper I talked to Jerry and he recommends the OEM head gasket which doesn't require sealant.

The section with no holes in it goes under the coolant neck of the head.

^^ what gillo said. That is so coolant goes around the whole cylinder

Thanks for the replies.. But now im a little confused... And i did this
Same job about a year and a half ago!!  Damn CRS syndrome.  The
Gasket i got has half with small holes and half with large oval holes.
If i install it with the small holes toward the front right of the cylinder, wont
That slow the coolant flow to force it around the exhaust port then across
 The head to the water neck? I think thats what gillio said.

You want it to come out of the water neck and be distributed around the cylinder some what evenly. If it was the big holes under the water neck coolant would just take the path of least resitance and go straight down to the lower passage right under the water neck and pull no heat from the back side of the cyl


Edit- Lt500kid beat me to it and said so much simpler. Lol

The coolant enters the cylinder from the cases through  a hole on the right side of the exhaust port.  The head returns the coolant to the radiator.  The outlet in the head is almost directly above where the coolant enters the cylinder. 

The small holes in the front of the head gasket force the majority of the coolant to flow around the left and right side of the cylinder to the rear of the cylinder.  Once the coolant streams have traveled around both sides of the cylinder, it travels up through the large holes in the head gasket ino the rear of the head.  The coolant now flows over the combustion chamber to the water outlet in the head and then back to the top of the radiator.

I was told by Shawn to position the gasket like so........That guy is awesome.
And so far so good.