07-11-2020, 11:02 PM
(07-11-2020, 07:38 PM)Alan Wrote: Nothing wrong with the current supply of head gaskets. My race car operates at more than three times the power output and considerably higher compression than standard. I don’t have head gasket problems. But then my head and block aren’t warped. Are yours?
As a mere mortal maintaining Austin 7 engines, I must disagree. The point is that the gaskets presently availible do not perform as well as those availible even 10 years ago.
They may well work when all is 100%, but are not so good when they are not.
Those of us lucky enough to remember proper copper and asbestos gaskets will know how forgiving they were. The present products bear no resemblance.
We should of course be gratefull that gaskets are availible, but we shoukd not kid ourselves that they are ace. They are not, they are shit.