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Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217831 18/10/2006 21:15 18/10/2006 21:15
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	Is there something wrong here or am I missing something? Would a Spesso head gasket for a 16VT cost that much ???

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217832 18/10/2006 21:22 18/10/2006 21:22
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	IIRC Nyssa7 sells spesso gaskets - give him a PM. Chris

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217833 18/10/2006 21:44 18/10/2006 21:44
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	Cheers, will do so. BTW isn't that price excessive??

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217834 18/10/2006 22:10 18/10/2006 22:10
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 12,294 Sandhurst Begbie Ex El Presidente
Begbie Ex El Presidente I AM a Coop Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 12,294 Sandhurst	Yeah that is about right, paid about £180 for my spesso head gasket with seperate fire rings. You got my package yet Vas? Originally Posted by Jonny - After being taken out at Spa Your car is Usain Bolt with wellies

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217835 18/10/2006 22:18 18/10/2006 22:18
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	Vas, the one on ebay is a slightly thinner one, 1,6mm. On standard compression engines, we always use the 1,9mm reinforced gasket without the separate rings (part nr. 66212), costs about £90 incl.VAT or the acier cometic reinforced gasket that also costs £90 Cheers

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217836 19/10/2006 01:05 19/10/2006 01:05
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,895 New Zealand Saint My life on the forum
Saint My life on the forum Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,895 New Zealand	I used the Spesso group N gasket - it was either 50gbp or 80gbp - can't recall 100% Cheers

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217837 19/10/2006 01:19 19/10/2006 01:19
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	Be carefull the cometic head gasket is 1mm thick only. You can't get them as reinforced anymore. Anyway even the standard is steel and strong and you can get them from US at 50 gbp. Do you know the standard gasket thickness please ?

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217838 19/10/2006 01:49 19/10/2006 01:49
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	As has been posted, that's the gasket with separate rings, UK list price including VAT for that one is £228.54 so the price is fair But doesn't look like current Spesso Racing packaging, and it will be an old stock item. The older "rings" gasket has a dowel alignment problem due to faulty tooling, Spesso have rectified this but the new gaskets are on order, they have not been released yet - so don't suppose this guy has got the latest ones Most people tend to go with the GpA 1.9mm gasket when going down the "rings" path, even those who buy the non-rings gasket only ever use the 1.9mm ones so I don't bother stocking the thinner ones If you're looking to buy, PM me and I'll mail you back with a quote including shipping to Greece. UK retail prices for the Fiat Coupe can be found at http://www.nyssaracing.com/shop/spesso/fiatcoupe.php Spesso Racing don't make a gasket for the 20vt, but the stock one works that well (even in my race car) that there would be little point

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217839 19/10/2006 01:50 19/10/2006 01:50
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	UK Retail for 66212 including VAT is £91.97 - 10% off that for forum members

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217840 19/10/2006 04:43 19/10/2006 04:43
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	Quote: Yeah that is about right, paid about £180 for my spesso head gasket with seperate fire rings. blimey that's expensive, so everytime you open the head to check if the pistons are still there and in one piece, you waste a couple of hunded quid just in gasket! Quote: You got my package yet Vas? yep, PMed you on Monday Begbie, parcel arrived in Athens will get my hands on it tomorrow that I'll drive down there cheers V.

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217841 19/10/2006 04:44 19/10/2006 04:44
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	nyssa, I'm interested, just give me a few days to sort out a couple of things and I'll PM you cheers V.

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217842 19/10/2006 16:40 19/10/2006 16:40
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	Quote: Be carefull the cometic head gasket is 1mm thick only. You can't get them as reinforced anymore. Anyway even the standard is steel and strong and you can get them from US at 50 gbp. Do you know the standard gasket thickness please ? Not sure, but i think the standard gasket thickness is 1,7mm. Were i order the acier cometic reinforced gaskets in France, the come in 2 sizes 1,52mm and 1,9mm. Stock ones are pretty strong. Mostly, the culprit of head gasket failure is a combination of running high boost, stock headbolts instead of high tensile ones, even wrong tightening of the head bolts. @JMA: Bonjour mon ami français

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217843 20/10/2006 00:08 20/10/2006 00:08
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	It's very strange. Here is the cometic catalog Cometic and the only refenrece available for lancia delta engine is 0.040" thick (so about 1mm). Which shop in France did you contact ? I ordered mine from US it's alot cheaper.

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217844 20/10/2006 04:07 20/10/2006 04:07
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	Quote: Which shop in France did you contact ? http://www.jacquemintuning.com Jacquemin Tuning 233 Avenue de la République 59110 La Madeleine (oui c'est dans le nord )

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217845 21/10/2006 00:43 21/10/2006 00:43
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	You are right I can see them on the Jacquemin catalog. It's a recent update I think. I got the C4124HP and I m' pretty sure it's 1mm thick only.

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217846 21/10/2006 01:26 21/10/2006 01:26
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	Quote: You are right I can see them on the Jacquemin catalog. It's a recent update I think. I got the C4124HP and I m' pretty sure it's 1mm thick only. They are available for a while now. Spesso is the most popular but acier cometic is not bad either. In the shop we had a guy like jari (sorry ) once. He was also running excessive boost with a standard gasket and blew them all the time. We got him a soft copper head gasket (custom made) and ARP head bolts and it was perfect. Unfortunately he had to crash the car and is driving an old renault diesel now Were are you located in France? Cheers.

Re: Spesso headgasket 16VT cost? #217847 24/10/2006 16:37 24/10/2006 16:37
A Anonymous Unregistered
Anonymous Unregistered A	@nyssa7: do you have spesso with this catalog number 67633? And what's the price? Thanks.

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