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Old 01-17-2008 | 10:57 AM
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Default RE: fitting a copper cylinder gasket


ORIGINAL: hunterz

do you heat it up on the engine I thought I saw somthing that says to heat it on the engine and tighten the head then let it cool and repeat a few timees or somthing to that affect

I personally have not heard that, I suppose its possible, sounds like a lot of work to seat a base gasket though. I asked around a bit more about annealing copper, and the basics are that when you anneal it, you do in fact "soften" it up a bit since it got work hardened from creating the sheets in the first place. At that point, when you tighten it back down, you are in a sense, work hardening it again by trying to squish it, hence the better sealing properties of annealed copper base gaskets.


ORIGINAL: splcrazy

hey is there gonna be any exciting new products from darksoulracing ????????? when is somebody gonna come out with a funky new design for a main chassis for the baja5b ?? how about making us a laser engraved chassis wtih some kind of pattern going on the side of the chassis ? would be verry cool indeed
We have a ton of new stuff coming, most of it will be released at RCX, I have at least one thing slated for release in about 10-12 days, and possibly another in probably a month to 6-8 weeks, if I don't actually show it off, there will be a major announcement anyways. I will have to ask the mods if I can post up our latest goodies, I think they will allow me 1 item a month, so let me run this stuff by the mods, and I may start a new thread.