header to 12a gasket is what i need

atkins is 16$
racing beats is 26$

what is atkins gasket made from? is racing beat actually better or is it just there high priced? are there any other places to get one? cant find one localy

thanks

 

I always thought and still think that till this day most of what atkins sells is over priced...

Buy from whom ever racingbeat, mazdatrix "atkins" hahaha what a joke your going to get the same good quality gasket from each of them...doesn't matter really, and its not a performance mod for crying out loud...

 

ya i just wanna make sure i dont get a pos that blows out right away

 

I bought these from Orielly Auto Parts 15.00 a piece and 7.00 to ship them both

 

I haven't used one since 2006. Just orange/copper high-temp silicone.

Haven't ever had a problem with leaks since doing that.

 

I've gotten gaskets from Mazdatix, RB and Atkins. Thay are all the same as far as I could tell.

 

Stay away from the brown aftermarket gaskets.

 

Any particular reason? The rebuild kit I got from Atkins had a brown exhaust gasket.

 

I've never used the brown type but I think they tend to burn or melt and then leak. The metal kind with the white in between is the best to use.

Atkins sells aftermarket gasket kits. Some gaskets work ok. Others, not so much.

 

The first time I ever installed headers, I used both gaskets. If one's good two's better, right? I then drove out of town to a funeral. By the time I got there the fiber gasket had burnt through causing a very noisy leak. Not cool driving through the cemetery.

When I got back home I removed the fiber gasket and the OEM one is still in place and not leaking to this day.

 

oem is the way to go..people think that they can just slap a peice of paper in between and call it a day...not in this case.

:AA:

 

i noticed the other day that the PO of my car had hi temp silicone in place of a gasket when he installed the header, it's holding up nicely though and had been on there for at least 4 years.

 

silicone on a rotary header? interesting lol

 

I wonder if it has baked into the header or the engine...

Even the highest temperature RTV stuff isn't rated for anything anywhere near the exhaust temperatures of the rotary. At least none that I have seen. Although the silicone is probably mostly squeezed out from there anyway and it's just metal-to-metal.