For you HRC people, what shoudl we use as a alternative for the turbine-DP gasket, and oil drain gasket?

For the oil drain, I thought of going with the Nitrile celluose paper, that the V8 guys use for Carb-intake manifold mounting. What do you guys think?

-K-

i had to fake my turbo DP gasket from HRC because they messed up on shipping. i found 2 gaskets lying around (the ones that came for my testpipe) and kind of put them on like this:



yeah, the picture SUCKS. took me 3 minutes in mspaint, but you get the idea. believe it or not, it doesn't leak at all. just looks kinda weird from the outside because it's thicker than the HRC gasket and there's stuff sticking out. works well though.

EDIT: changed "downpipe" to "testpipe"

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You can use 2.5" header collector gaskets. You can get them in several materials. So far, the best I've found is pressed copper. But, after awhile that degrades too. I'm looking for a stainless steel one now.

Corbin

'95 ESI-T
HRC+FMIC+ETC...



Gimme fuel...Gimme fire...Gimme that which I desire

Thanx for the replies.

Corbin, Where do I go to purchase the sheets? Not really sure where to start looking.

How about the Oil drain gasket? Does Nitrile Cellulose paper seem like a good idea?

-K-

Mr. Gasket makes the copper ones. Advance Auto should be able to order them. I'm considering cutting up a piece of scrap stainless and trying to make it seal. The nitrile celulose oil drain gasket sounds good. It doesn't take much to seal that connection. I'm using a paper type gasket there (from a mitsu rebuild kit).

Corbin

'95 ESI-T
HRC+FMIC+ETC...



Gimme fuel...Gimme fire...Gimme that which I desire