You didn't "O" ring the head then that's the way to go for no blow head gaskets ;-) Rich
Pinto experts
Nov 29, 2005
25 Replies
No. Thats the commercial / consumer / "obvious" way to go. Binning the gaskets is way better. Nothinjg to give/break/leak. And it diddnt, enen when trev tried 800 bhp extra nitrous at the strip.
How much torque did you use on the head bolts? I'm guessing a metric fuckload.
Fraser
Machined block, machined heads, a smear (not much!) of gasget gung and stock torque settings. Alloy motor, alloy heads, flat surfaces, both the same expansion/contraction, its like it was meant this way! Why put a steel gasket in between! Something else to fail.
When drag racing, even silicon was used. Yes I know petrol kills it! It works long enough!
Mad bugger. I love it.
Fraser
BBC would be just as easy.
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