Swifty's never-ending project thread!

[Kracka]

Stock or Mitsu MLS.

[santa]

The thing that I ponder..is why is everyone on this felpro permatorque gasket bandwagon? Yea, it's a good gasket..good for it. What was everyone using BEFORE this came out? eh? And, did it not work for all the other DSMers out there for MANY MANY years? I guess marketing is really that powerful..

The permatorque gasket is a multi layer gasket just like the mitsu metal's but, mitsu metal's weren't made for 2.4lt guys. I had a commetic HP in my car (when I had my 2.4) with a 61 on it and blew the shit out of the gasket many time's. The other reason why thing's are so much better now are the head stud's are holding that head down much better then the standard old arp's ever did!

[scheides]

Scheides, I don't even wanna know how many times you failed..how many HG's you gone through? I know your car needs a hg right now! ;)

My car will never see a HG ever again :(

But, when the head came off, I always used a NEW one, and was careful not to damage it :)

[Swifty1638]

True, making me wonder..maybe I'll rock a mitsu MLS, and swap that bitch out..later?

[Swifty1638]

Scheides, I didn't think I could damage it by having it in the bottom of a drawer on my toolbox (literally bottom..I could show you the shit I found when I cleaned it out!). I am not saying that it was or wasn't the reason..could also been what I did to it with the washer incident. Who knows. All I know is it's time for a new one.

[santa]

True, making me wonder..maybe I'll rock a mitsu MLS, and swap that bitch out..later?
swap what out later?

ps make sure its not your water pump like you said.

[scheides]

+1 on the water pump, unless you didn't touch that? Still.

+2 or 3 on Mitsu MLS gasket. They're like $60.

[Swifty1638]

Swap out the gasket for another, un beaten, unsprayed gasket.

I am still curious on that. I guess if it isn't fixed with a hg, I'll do the water pump gasket..I know I should sometime do the o-ring on the water pipe as it's been a long time since it was replaced, and over winter when it's cold, it leaks. Seems to be fine now though. If it ain't broke..why fix it?

[Swifty1638]

look up a mitus mls gasket cost..it's gone up. much more. It sucks.

[goodhart]

Mitsu metal and be done with it ( I've had one in my car for over a year at 530awhp, and never pushed any coolant). Cost is like $100. Cometic head gaskets SUCK!

Whats wrong with the permatorque's? I have yet to hear of one failing yet. (Except on Rau's car.)