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tadge44

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Just stripped out the manifolds and turbo as I have had an irritating small leak, which I suspected was the turbo to manifold again.

It turns out that that is fine but the manifold gasket was leaking on the centre port - probably because I used an unknown make of gasket last time.

Are there recommendations for these gaskets, please ? And can I get them from Minispares ?


apbellamy

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are all the ports level on the manifold.

I've used the late injection ones with the fire rings.

On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it

*hehe!*


wolfie

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might be worth having a light surface grind on your manifold, i have always used a turbo gasket and never had a problem http://www.minispares.com/product/Classic/...k%20to%20search

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Why wolfie...you should have your name as Fuckfaceshithead !


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tadge44

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There is a little distortion Andy, but no worse than any of my manifolds - Ill dress the faces up, just to be sure.

Minispares charge about £4 for the MPi gasket and £10 for the turbo one - is it worth the extra ?


apbellamy

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we never had any bother with the injection one as long as we got everything tightened properly

On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it

*hehe!*


Joe C

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Ive been fine with the std competiton one without the rings,

I reckon the MPI one should be well up to the job

On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged...

Joe, do you have a photo of your tool?



http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1

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c2_mad

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i have used the mpi one with no problem at all


madmk1

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I moved to the mpi one after I had the same sort of thing happen to me. Now it's fine. I just give every thing a good key up first.

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

On 1st Nov, 2007 Ben H said:
There is no such thing as 'insignificant weight saving', it all adds up.


Craigie-B

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Im using the metal injection type one, told somerford what I was after and they said that would be a good shout *happy*

On 10th Mar, 2012 theoneeyedlizard said:

Hypothetically speaking, where would you stick your nozzle?


On 22nd Jun, 2012 apbellamy said:
my wife doesn't know what.head is never mind compression ratio.


tadge44

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Thanks everyone -- MPi gaskets on the way.

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