Thinking of buying a copper head gasket any views?

Or what should i go for ,looking at running 22psi or more

 

you do know that if you use a Coopers gasket you WILL have to have the block machined to accept the firing rings!

if that's ALL the psi your going to use then if it was me I'd go for a Group A one

 

Christian was running over 32psi on a standard ford gasket IIRC.

And from what ive heard its fairly common to lose coolant and oil as a result of the copper gasket, as you have to use sealants, which make it hard to get a good seal on the water and oil galleries

 

ok cheers thanks for the info

 

hi mate i was running 20 psi on a zetec turbo with a plate from ferriday engineering the plate was bonded to the block using a semi hardning sealing compound then on top of the plate is a ford head gasket then torqued down as normal

never failed on me so i would say

tommy

 

Thats a different kettle of fish though, as you've used it as a decompression plate so you can get away with bonding to the block, and the headgasket forms the seal to it.

hes talking about JUST a copper gasket.............

 

sorry mate never red it fully yip grp a should do for that

 

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Genesis Engineering, started off as copper mate (thought my reading was getting worse for a minute there )

Of all the information ive ever been passed back, everyone seems to use the decompression plates in addition to a gasket, which i have never liked the sound of.

If theres sealeants around that will actually seal up the galleries properly then its all good obviously