Well, there have been complaints, quite a number of them in fact. I used his
gaskets on racing Spitfire engines and bought them by the dozen years back.
The old ones were excellent, the new ones I have found to be useless. At the
time (~ a year ago) Chris said to just use two......... Worse than useless!
Everyone is certainly entitled to opinions but I will never use these again
unless he goes back to the old material which was suburb.
Yeah, at the time I too was told there were no complaints and these were
just as good. The two products had as much difference as fine oats, before
and then after they go through the horse!
I still have some of the "old" gaskets and would like to source a production
run of them if I can find the material. Those were excellent. As a side
note, there was no asbestos in any of the gaskets I got!
Russ Moore
Spitfire #49
-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Scott Janzen
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 10:48 AM
To: 'Friends of Triumph' Triumph
Subject: [Fot] PRI Spitfire and GT6 Manifold gaskets
I've heard a couple of comments from some of you about PRI gaskets, and how
the new ones aren't as good as the old ones. Thought you might be
interested in the explanation below I got from Chris at PRI yesterday.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Chris Cancelli <chris@motocancelli.com>
Subject: Re: GT6 Manifold gaskets
Hi Scott, the material the past had asbestos in it so we had to change. The
new gaskets have been just as good. No complaints, hundreds sold, they are
still the best gaskets on the market.
To make new gaskets altogether (tr4) etc the setup cost is $500. I haven't
had too many requests.
Chris
"Scott Janzen" wrote:
Hi, I've gotten these gaskets from you before and have been extraordinarily
satisfied. I'd like to get several more, but have heard that they may be
thinner and not as durable these days. Please advise, so that I can order.
Also, I'm curious as to what the material is - would like to get some
gaskets made for my TR4 race car.
Thanks, Scott
Recent race at Watkins Glen in the GT6, with a buddy of mine close behind.
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