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Old Mar 5, 2011 | 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by coswurv
This is something i have been looking into with regards to pistons, the turbo was boosting around 30psi when i had the car out, would you say the gasket i used just wasnt man enough for the job and also with the 2thou discrepency on the block, If the news comes back good about the head i will have the bock decked and use a multi layer steel gasket, by doing this i take it the chances of it doing this again with the said boost it was running should be fine if fueling is ok etc ?

I would guess a couple of big spikes of dett and a sub standard gasket let go, A correctly mapped one may have made the gasket last a while.

Mark
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