October 23, 200916 yr Where do you find them? Ask Subarutex IIRC - he had bought some at one point. They aren't the solution to high boost though. It's been tried. If you want to high-boost an EA82T then you need a set of studs and you need to o-ring the block. Standard head gaskets will work just fine. GD
October 23, 200916 yr Yeah, I have a set of these hanging on my tool wall. Cost me something like $180 or something like that, including the compression rings, and special copper spray sealant. It never worked out for me. But, I don't blame the headgaskets. I blame the $800 block I bought "freshly machined" and rebuilt. After it not holding together 3 or 4 times I finally took it into the machine shop to have it checked. Both head mating surfaces were severely out of true. I guess my bad trusting an at the time reputable shop. Second mistake was assembling the block myself with not a whole lot of experience. Although after 8 "builds" I got fairly good at the process. Third mistake was improper break in procedures, and refusing to believe in engine management. Or rather, refusing to spend the money on it. A trip to the machine shop on my first build would have cost me $400-$500 to have the heads and block trued to eachother... maybe even torque-plated, and could have saved me 4-5x that much over the course of the year and half I tried to make power. Supposedly the coppers HG's I have can be reused, however you'll need to order new compression rings. This is who I bought them from: http://www.headgasket.com/index.html I'd be happy to send you the set I have, and the spray sealant for $40. No guarantees they are even usable, but maybe.
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