How do I make a gasket?
 

I need a gasket that marries the turbo to the down pipe ;)

Re:How do I make a gasket?
 

don't know other than to get a factory gasket for it. anyone konw of material to make exhaust gaskets out of?

Re:How do I make a gasket?
 

I heard a dude talkin about gasket sheets the other day. I'm not sure where to get that stuff tho.

Re:How do I make a gasket?
 

Basically you take your gasket material, and put it on your surface that needs the gasket. (Make sure it's clean) It really helps if the edges around the shape that you're making are fairly sharp.

Anyway, you take a ball peen hammer, and you tap out the shape along the edges of the surface. Eventually the surface will have cut the shape out of the gasket material. There's probably a better way of doing this, but this was how I was taught in HS.

Re:How do I make a gasket?
 

Your better off going to the dealer for whatever turbo the car came off and getting it directly through them..

Jeff

Re:How do I make a gasket?
 

If you turbo didnt originaly have a gasktet at the DP like mine, you can get ghetto like I did. Used a thin piece of tin cut from siding material. Cut a rough shape from tin snips, then traced out the gasket shape and used a dremel for the final cut. (the goal being, not to distort or bend the piece). This was a last resort, as I could not find this magical 'gasket maker' in a suitable material. This is the second time I've used this stuff, and it has worked perfectly both times. :-\

HTH
Dave

Re:How do I make a gasket?
 

I've seen Sheets of cork gasket material sold in various places, hardware stores, auto parts stores, etc... but I don't think that cork would make a good gasket for something like exhaust.

-Henry

Re:How do I make a gasket?
 

i already tried those cork stuff it didnt work. burns off in a couple of minutes. i just used aluminum foil mkae it thick. worked fine for a year already.

Re:How do I make a gasket?
 

Cork is pretty bad, I think Beau tried it on his Turbo B16 along time ago, and it smoked the ---- out of it, burnt into crisps.

Jeff

Re:How do I make a gasket?
 

I tried that cork thing... yeah it turned into a crunchy peice of charcoal...... so i just got a thin peice of sheet metal... traced the flange on it and cut it with a dremel and it worked ok....