Well, it has to be like at LEAST 2 or 3 PRESSED together or however they are stuck together.

 

thanks guys, sorry to hi-jack the thread there.

impactwrench, if you give me till tomorrow, i'll take my dp into work, and during lunch make a real nice tech drawing up for ya of the gaskets it uses... won't do much to help for the rest of the gaskets, but might help ya out wiht those ones. i'll send it in a .pdf format to ya... PM me so i remember though ok?

 

One more thing. I would'nt mind coming up with a kit, say 3 or 4 exhaust flange gaskets where the cat hooks to the dp and muffler. I recently put a mp on my car and because of the boost creep issues that I've read about here, I watercut 3 new gaskets. 1 at 2.5" ID, 1 at 2.75" ID, and 1 at 3" ID. I installed, and am currently running the 2.5" ID gasket between the dp and mp without any creep issues. When I get some time (10 minutes), I will go up to the 2>75 inch and see what happens. And I rant, but anyway, I could probably cut and ship a set of these for your own experimentation for about $30. gaskets were cut from 16 Ga. 304 ss

 

Based on my experience doing a downpipe install, $100 for a new turbo-downpipe gasket is cheap in order to not to have to repeat that miserable job because of an exhaust leak. The first lesson of Auto Mechanics 101 is to never reuse gaskets.

 

I smell a group buy or maybe have Jason sell them.

 

I bought a DP/MP gasket for ~$25 from rx7store when i installed my dp in august.

 

How the hell did the price go up so high? WTF?

 

I talked to Ray, at Malloy, he said last month they were 35$ and for no reason Mazda said "hey lets do 70$" so they did =/

BTW thats 70$ at Malloy everywhere else is 100 to 114$!@!!!!

 

to the top...any news?

Thanks,
Sean

 

bump.. GB.... Jason?!?!?

 

so who can make those gasket at a reasonnable price i need them ASP and i don t want to spend more that 200$ for 3 gaskets.

 

BUmp^ any progress or updates on this issue. I can have someone make some copper gakets but I'm not sure how they would hold up as far as sealing the exhaust, he says he could do 1/16" what do you guys think? Copper is good for close to 2000F and is very malleable, which is a bit more than what the exhaust temps, will reach. I'm on the same boat as most of you guys need new gaskets, but have plenty of time. The cheapest I could find so far was from http://rxforyour7.com/Rotary%20Parts.htm#FD3S, but the pricing was from 3 months ago.

 

$45... that is cheap!

 

anyone have any gasket solutions yet? I can't believe how bad mazda is ripping us off on these.. they must cost like 0.10 each to mass produce!

 

Thats crazy, my downpipe to turbo gasket looked brand new. Now the one to the cat, that is a whole different story.

Matthew Walsh

 

I looked hard. The problem is that temps at that junction approach 1000° F. That's more than anything but fiberglass and metal can handle. So most DIY gasket materials will cook quickly. The trick, if reusing a metal gasket here, is perfectly flat mating surfaces, very clean surfaces, and even, accurately torqued studs.

I ended up buying a new/unused gasket off another forum member for a lot less than the current dealer price. According to one parts guy, Mazda changed/updated the part number for this gasket. So I'm curious if they improved it, or just jacked it $$.