Glen,
Idle curiosity - could you use 2mm or 3mm copper sheet?
Guy R Day
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Byrns" <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 10:15 PM
Subject: [Spridgets] exhaust gasket material
> Bugsy's been down for a week since I discovered that NAPA manifold gasket
> material (the grey stuff on a steel core) doesn't stand up to turbo
> temperatures. It developed a leak, and on disassembly the gasket was
> pretty
> much just a bunch of ash clinging to the stainless steel core. Not a
> single
> turbo shop on the web or anywhere else could find a gasket to fit the
> Rayjay
> turbo. After a bit of research I found a company that sells gasket
> material
> made of graphite bonded to stainless steel. Good up to 900F, and two
> sheets
> are on the way for Monday. I should have held on to the crappy old ones
> at
> the last rebuild, oh well.
> If anyone else needs a VERY high temp gasket, enter "graphite gasket
> material"
> in Google, or e-mail me and deal for my leftovers.
>
> Glen
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