Using donut gasket on headers..
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Le Mans Master
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Using donut gasket on headers..
I just thought you guys would like to know about something my friend showed me while hooking up my new headers to the Y pipe. Instead of using the normal flat gasket or sometimes 2 gaskets together to connect the 2 pipes together, he put in a donut gasket, the one that has 2 beveled sides that they used in all cars years ago..I just went to Advance Auto with the pipe, got one that fit properly, put it in and tightened it down.It fit great and according to him it will last for years without leaking instead of the short time some last on these cars..These are made of some kind of fiber and I don't see how it could ever leak..
...WW
...WW
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Last edited by WW7; May 13, 2010 at 08:09 AM.
Burning Brakes
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Really? You just stuff a doughnut gskt in the collector and it works? What size collector are you using? Wouldn't it add restriction?
This is something I've never seen, without some special pipe (like a ball/socket ccollector). Anybody got a picture of the fitment?
This is something I've never seen, without some special pipe (like a ball/socket ccollector). Anybody got a picture of the fitment?
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The gasket might stick into the collector an eighth of an inch or so. Not enough to be called a restriction. The taper of the gasket fits into the collector and reducer and can't be seen.
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