Anonymous

What is best

Group A gasket or Comtec gasket ??

Is it worth the extra for the WRC item ??

B11GNS

Depends on the spec of your engine.

Anonymous

Stage three
After bottom end is sorted i hope for around the 350bhp mark

Toe Knee

iTrader: (2)

As said, group A is good, but if u can afford em the cometic are better, WRC is a bit overkill but again depends on ur spec, also the cometic are slightly thicher depending which u get so helps lower the comp ratio a bit if ur heads been a skimmed IIRC

B11GNS

Mine is similar spec to yours and i use a group A with no probs

Anonymous

Ive just had this same dilemma, im going for the cometic as I think the group a's just seem to be a little over hyped and a lot of cash for what they are, and if you weigh the £150 for the cometic against the £300+ for the wrc gasket and think that it does virtually the same job I know which wins in my mind!

Doug

You can get a cometic tripple which is 57"Thou the same as grp A
I would personally reconmend cometic over grpA but if you got wire rung block use grp A
Regards Doug

Anonymous

duno if it is right or not but i was told if you have a wire rung block then you could just use a standard gasket as it creates suficient pressure.
could be a load of bollocks though

Doug

Darren i spose it depends on boost and engine spec or personal preference might be wrong

Anonymous

The 200 block i have is wire rung block.
Does this mean no Cometic gasket ??
Will i only be left with a group A option??

Thanks for the help so far

Anonymous

now that one i dont know im afraid?
um stu where are you?

Doug

Ive just had to have my 200 block decked for a cometic as it had been wire rung that was the advise given to me
I spose if you think about it logically a steel gasket wont compress propperly in to the groove of the ring wheras a carbon gasket will
Hope that helps
Doug

Anonymous

What do you mean by decked ??????

Toe Knee

iTrader: (2)

They skim it so its flat rather than having the groves for the wire rings 2 sit in mate

IIRC dont u just need a standard gasket if u have rings due to the rings improving seal rather than a group a??

Doug

Cheers toe

Anonymous

Anyone else got any idea if group A is best choice?

Moose 130

Aparently the late Escos FoMoCo one is better than group A. I got a Cometic one for £100 +del +vat so they arn't that dear.