juffer

A friend of mine is building his full zetec turbo engine and asked me what head gasket to use? I have done a few searches on here and found different answers to my question. People were saying use the standard zetec gasket, st170 head gasket and the RS Focus gasket (Which i thought was the same as a N/A zetec )

So what are you all using and FINIS numbers would be great.

project rs

it'll depend on what comp ratio he is after as all the above are different thicknesses so people use them to alter the ratio but all the above are safe to use on a turbo

mercgrey

focus rs is triple layer one i use that theres also a thicker gen ford one for focus rs for when the head has been skimmed! crazy_cage found it out! and is running it on his

crazycage

ill 2nd that, the focus rs is 0.6mm the st170 1mm and the one im on now is 1.8mm

project rs

nice to see i can get something right once in a while you enjoy your outing in new car bet you can't wait to top speed it at around 150

JesseT

So, is the 1.8mm a Ford item or something else?

Gregor

I'm also running a 1.8 mm item on my zetec turbo.
wich is a ford item.

Going fine sofar...

Rick

Jesse, yes it's a Ford item. It is for refurbed cylinder heads which have been skimmed.

Rick

JesseT

Would you have a FINIS for that?

I'm currently using a five layer gasket made of two ST170 gaskets because I calculated my squish band too small by accident when speccing my custom pistons.

crazycage

ill post it on here tonight when i get home from work,as people have sent pm's about it too.
im not one for keeping info to myself like a lot of others on here.
its Ł66 quid the the others are only Ł33.

juffer

Cheers crazycage that would be great !

Gregor

Mine was about 70 € wich is indeed for heads skimmed to much...

The number for the gasket is : 1361410

Hope this helps.

cheers

crazycage

there you go saves me digging it out.

JesseT

Just to confirm: I picked up the head gasket with that FINIS code and it is a 4-layer stainless gasket, quite similar to the ST170 gasket, only the spacing layer is thicker. I measured the thickness at 1.8mm too.