Okay going on boost by summer t-72 on the bottle 150 shot

question here is what seals are he/she running and what are your out comes?

Also has anyone ran the super seals that puerto rico is running? They claim to withstand boost up to 30 pounds no problems and are better then the ceramic seals.

 

okay i will start this off

im running carbon apex seal 3mm all motor on my 13b bridgie runs hella great looking for a good set of seal proven to run hella hard on boost what you guys got out there

 

oe is the way to go

 

+1 ^

 

Oe ?

 

Saving for the NRS ceramic seals

ceramic or OE, nothing else

 

Mazda OEM 2mm seals all the way.

 

RA seals for me and many I know.

 

ra seals i heard they don't fit very well in the rotors there like over sized and on top of that during normal operation they score the housings.

 

I'm saving for one peice NRS ceramics!

 

how much do those run I heard either mazda trix or racinbeat or some damn shop was having a sale on there ceramic seals

 

what about these hurly's seals my friend Im about to build his motor for is going to use them has anyone here heard anything bad about them

 

Who cares, they all break anyhow... in my last motor I had 3mm Mazda Seals... and they broke... badly....

 

lol ^ turbo or none turbo

 

3mm seals are over rated and suck on boost. they dont flex and thats where the issues come into play. TEDDY i can tell you that 90.9% of the guys back home a have OE seals in their motors and they are running really high boost 50+psi. **** atkins was sponsorin carlos gonzalez who wasnt even using their seals he was using OE , but still claim that he did use atkins seals for sponsorship reasons , you see in my book thats is wrong but hey thats oki for ya
my 2 cts dont waste you money on ceramics ore anything else OE all the way its been proven time and time again by most of the fastest rotaries in the world.

 

oops double post here is a random pic

 

I say Cryo treated Mazda 2 piece are the only way to go unless you can afford NRS ceramics.

 

thats true how much do cryo treated seals run for and who does it

 

Yeah i know i think padilla was running oe seals on his all motor pulling mad hp your brother bengi vidal ran oe seals 3mm carbons though his **** ran hella hard. So yeah i take your word on oe seals and the amount of boost you can run. Good stuff

 

The two I rebuilt had Mazda OEM seals. The one Karack rebuilt for my FD has Atkins seals.

 

they running pretty good with the atkins

 

TO answer the question Single Turbo GT35/40 and no I wasn't running "Mad Boost" I was Mad as hell when they blew to a bad tank of gas... the whole idea was to have them be able to take some punishment and survive...

 

It's all in the tuning. Even the best seals will fail with poor tuning. And IMHO 3mm seals are simply a crutch that allows for errors in tuning. 2mm OEM seals FTW.

But if you want to run aftermarket seals then I would say Atkins. Because at least when they break they tend to turn into dust instead of hard pieces of seal that will take out your turbine wheel on the way out. *Thanks to Ben for teaching me that*

And yes, ceramics are the best but not a lot of people can actually afford those.

 

Atkins seals there not carbon material r they? Cuz if they r they will not work to well under boost, if not what kind of material r they

 

Atkins seals work just fine under boost. I don't know who fed you that info. They aren't as tough as RA seals or ceramics, but I do know that Atkins seals hold up to boost and I've even seen them hold up to repeated detonation. I was 100% serious when I said that your tune/tuner is 10 times more important than what seal you're using.