any reviews on the solid corner seals offered by atkins?

 

I just installed a set on a customer's motor and didn't like them. Typically I use mazda oem parts (to include 3mm corner seals) but the customer supplied these. The grooves in two of them were a bit offset from center, and required additional clearancing.

Note that they weren't in an atkins bag, so i'm going off what the customer told me. They definitely werent oem mazda, and didn't have one smooth face like the stock parts. They also were supposedly a couple of years old, so maybe they've changed some things since then.....

 

ive got them in my engine. i dont know what difference they made really, but they work. so, whatever. i dont see a down side to them.

 

I heard from another member that the soft seals inside the corner seals were Mazda's attempt to reduce chatter in the 12A's. That may or may not be an issue with the 13B's, or may not even be the truth, just putting that out there. I will probably use solid corner seals in my rebuild I'm working on now, as I personally don't see any reason not to.