Fudgey

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i need to make 4 gaskets for my roller barrels, bearing in mind its gonna see about 30psi - is this stuff any good to use?

its to join the plenum to the r/b's

also what thickness to use? says its got.5mm and .8mm

cheers

Dangerous Malcolm..

I made a thermostat gasket out of the 0.8 stuff, worked fine for that. It's about 50p a sheet at the motor factors.

Fudgey

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ah nice one mate, i need to pop down APD this week anyway, so ill ask them what stuff they have

Charlie Chalk

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While on topic of gaskets, Is there anything out there to make a custom exhaust manifold gasket?

Need one for me manifold - head.

xr-stu

around Ł1.49 from any good supermarket, and comes with free cereal!

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Dan, how much boost do you plan to run?

Anything near/over 2 BAR and the paper/fiberous gaskets will blow out in little pieces........might take a month or 6 months of use, but they do eventually break up.

Fudgey

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doug, i basically want to ring its bollocks off lol

enough boost to make at least 450bhp is the plan

what other stuff is there i could use?

cheers

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My first choice would be machine grooves for neoprene "O" rings.........second choice would be the Loctite heavy RTV.

Fudgey

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i had thought about o rings doug, but on the rb's there is a small hole in each that is used for an idle bypass, so it wont make a 100% seal. i could always block these with chemical metal as they wont be used anyway.

same goes for the locktite i guess

i could also just have that plate welded on to the rb's, as the car is going to pro alloy next month so im sure they could do that

ill stick a cad drawing up tomoz to show what im on about, as its on my work computer

Fudgey

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here we go then, need to block off these, then should be able to use o-rings

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Dan, do Titan od a dedicated paper/fibre gasket for that mounting face?

If so, the trick is to use the paper/fiber gasket BUT on assemply apply a thin bead of loctite RTV on to ONE mating surface only so that the gasket is in effect glued in place, then it cant be blown outwards/sucked inwards.

Fudgey

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ill ask them doug, im not sure tho as that is where the trumpets are bolted on, so not really needed to be 100% sealed

i will find out!

Ryan

dont fit the gasket just yet, they'll rot out before you get the car running

Fudgey

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funny man eh