Combi_Chris

ok picture this , your cvh 1600 head is weeping at the ends, you need a new gasket , you go and buy a felpro, then get told they are poo by everyone but the 2 places i phoned and asked, i asked burton power , and power engineering, they both said felpro are fine, everyone else sais get a ford one, im confused, has anyone got any words of wisdom to help me decide ? ?

M Brian

as said most people swear by the geniune ford one on escort/fiesta turbo's

I've just replaced mine with genuine ford one.

(the felpro I took off didnt look in bad condition though in fairness)

what gasket was on there?

Oranoco

Felpro are fucking shite. Mine let go mid race with a Carrera 4

Ford gasket is considerably cheaper as well at about £30. Will not be using Felpro again. Ignore Burtons and PE

Combi_Chris

i have no clue until tomorow , will post it on here though , i think ill get a ford one though its the one everyone tells me to get, im actually suprised though to hear that a supposed better gasket is actually worse!!

wildheart

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I bought a gasket from PJ Motorsport @ Ford Fair for £5

M Brian

inlet manifold one?

Matt Lewis

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Genuine Ford or Payern for me

Matt

Ginge !

ford ones or a payen one, but thats cause they are ford ones

felpro are ok, oranoco forgot to mention his lasted for a fair while !!!

but genuine ford ones or payen hall as there cheeper and just as good

Oranoco

Wouldn't have called 6 months a while considering the car isn't used every day

Combi_Chris

i spoke to several people outside this forum , they all said felpro are fine, im confused to be honest.

vroooom ptssssh

Felpro are wank, always go between cylinders?

FORD all the way

L33 BYT

FORD ALL THE WAY.

wildheart

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no

Oranoco

This forum is a wealth of knowledge and good advise. The people that are telling you Felpro are fine simply haven't used them and or just don't have a fucking clue.

Vrroooom ptshhhhh - That's exactly how mine failed mate

morto

ok, lets get this sorted.. iv used both felpro and ford payen, both have failed weather ther ford or felpro, the thing is everyone blames the head gasket but its not always the head gaskets fault>>> my last felpro lasted as long as my payen ford, now i phoned kenny up at m.s.d, the only people i trust sorry and karl kenny said felpro are classed as group A head gaskets and are fine now if m.s.d tell me felpro or fine thats all i neeed to here

at the end of the day believe what you want but as said iv used both and both have failed

i also have massive respect for kenny and what he says is right ..

andy

Combi_Chris

the guy thats doing the job on my car has a 300 bhp escort WITH a felpro gasket , hes car was in performance ford , a white series II

Ginge !

mate no offence but there seem to be alot of 300bhp escorts about, last year they was all 250, the year before was 230 and then it was 200

also depends how ya drive, on a serious note if a gasket lasts in oranocos car then i recomend it as he spanks the living shit out of his car, not like most too, he just carrys on, was following him in his mums fiesta and i was doing 115 on the clock to attempt to keep up, this was from A12 M25 to A1/M25, he never backed off once either

oranoco didnt ya have a felpro in ya engine before it went a few months ago

im assuming ya head gasket has gone twice this year, what was in it before when i first met ya , id use one of them again deffo


the reason people say standard is casue there just as good but cheeper

Combi_Chris

well the heads off now and guess what gasket was on there ??


FELPRO

vroooom ptssssh

We rest our case

Ginge !

pmsl

remeber that bad fitting will also be a issue on most

NEO™®©

i stuck a felpro on mine and it never gave me any grief for over a year till i sold it and i was running 23 psi boost

EIL132

Ford all the way, Felpro are total shite

NEO™®©

although mine lasted me well i had a lot of people tell me after i fitted it that ford was the cheaper and more reliable way to go, was jus sayin mine hung on lol must have been the lucky one lmao!!

EIL132

NEO™®©

wow i was lucky then lol

bud-weis

what about a ferriday copper gasket???

Anonymous

You said in your first post the head is warped, so ANY gasket on there would have failed, so its not a condemning piece of evidence that the felpro one did.

But i still say listed to people on here and go for the ford one anyway.

But for gods sake make sure that both mating surfaces are perfectly flat

Turbosystems

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the only comment I will make is
" USE THE FORD LUKE " may the boost be with you

mart.rs

yeah i agree with chip-3door the main concern of head gaskets going is the heads distorting or or incorrect torque settings,and as said id stay with ford all the way i had a white s2 before the one ive got now, and dean at sheppards built me an engine low comp,mahle pistons,2wd cossy turbo,-31 paddle clutch and a bayjoo chip and STANDARD HEAD and that was it. It ran 22psi all day long on a ford gasket and never let me down at all! i wouldnt use anything else mate! do miss that car