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kaboom10 · 06-16-2009, 19:02

McCord was developing a grafpac head gasket for racing. When I would go to a nascar race with him I got me a bunch of what ever was being developed. Worked great on the street and track. Glad I got mine unfolded. How ignorant.

Our overtime trying to make a gasket for the new modular 4.6 paid for the nascar grand national class chevy V6 I was doing and the original V6 was wearing out. I would get a big bottle of RESTORE and use it till it ran out then add another. It filled in a lot of the little places that leaked combustion gases. A guy could dump some of that stuff in and sell the car as if it had a rebuilt engine. Even got 135k miles out of the trans to. Turned that ride into a race car on the street modeled after our late model.

**360ci** · 06-16-2009, 19:32

I might try Restore one of these days. Perhaps if it came in a bottle like other oil I'd be more willing to try it? Hmmm. I've used Felpro gaskets for the most part. Inexpensive, and run a long time, except on my Spirit cars which were prone to head gasket failures (average was around 50K/gasket), so every two years I'd replace it as if it was in the regular maintenance schedule in the owners manual! Still, it still irks me that a performance shop would ship a gasket folded over. Perhaps it's worse that they actually thought I'd be able to use it!

kaboom10 · 06-17-2009, 04:22

There's the pure copper head gasket and the multi layer ones now that are excellent.

**360ci** · 06-17-2009, 14:28

Good to know, thanks! I haven't had to buy one in a long while now. I gather in the next couple years I'll need one for either my Taurus or Durango. Who makes the gaskets you speak of?

kaboom10 · 06-17-2009, 14:33

I don't know specifically but copper is usually a race only item. Multi layer technology has grown from when I first saw it. Google what you want and see what pops up. Felpro has been an industry leader and I would look there first.

**360ci** · 06-17-2009, 14:59

I've generally used Felpro from the get-go. Perhaps I'll just stick with them and use whatever they decide to send me (or the store I get them from at least); preferably not folded.

kaboom10 · 06-17-2009, 15:13

Of course I got my gaskets for free from work but we would confer with the engineers on certain applications. On occassion they would say to use a Felpro. Couldn't complain about the bearings since they were the Michigan77 brand.

**360ci** · 06-17-2009, 15:28

Braggart! All I get from my work, is grief. My Taurus rarely cruises above 65mph, where the rpms are a modest 2200rpm. I'm certain the gasket on that baby'll last well toward 200,000miles. Providing I still have the car then. Next on my to do list however, is body work around the fenders.

kaboom10 · 06-17-2009, 15:32

I've heard Bar's Leak has made leaps in technology in that area. lol