copper exhaust gasket
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i'd go remflex personally. I did and it's been awesome! well worth the bit of extra $. Not sure if copper would be any better, but just wanted to say very happy with my remflex.
Iron Giant has them also so you can support a mud member.
GL!
rob
Iron Giant has them also so you can support a mud member.
GL!
rob
Never used one on a Cruiser engine, but the copper gaskets worked great on my race car headers. I used the factory OEM exhaust gasket on my Cruiser & it, of course, works great.
I've heard nothing but stellar reviews on Remflex's manifold gaskets. They make a set for Chrysler's slant-6 engines and are one of only two gasket companies (the other being an outfit in Australia) to completely solve the notorious exhaust manifold leak that those engines develop. I plan to use a Remflex if I ever decide to put headers on my 3FE.
remflex.
iron_giant
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Copper gaskets are great. I've used them on my 2002 with headers and they sealed up very nicely... They are used frequently in hobby racing and for good reason as they offer great strength, heat dispersion, are reusable, and offer some flexibility for sealing. I've considered copper gaskets for Land Cruisers but they just don't seem well suited to our application. I don't think a copper gasket offers the flexibility that is required to seal the manifold combo to the head when you consider the heating and cooling cycle differences between aluminum and cast, and also between no.1 and no.6 cylinders. If the OEM and Fel-Pro gaskets, which are three times thicker and more compressible than copper, struggle to seal over time then I think there is no way a typical copper gasket would cope. Also, a copper gasket of the size required would be very expensive. Just my thoughts on the subject. I think it is a fantastic material and definitely has it's place, just not on a 2F.
