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Subject: [Fot] Re-torquing a cylinder head - GT6
From: britcars at bellsouth.net (barry rosenberg)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:46:35 +0000 (UTC)
References: <EF1F8C5D-7627-4609-8C5E-7E1FD6A4F389@me.com> <15e9d9fccfc-c08-27227@webjas-vae025.srv.aolmail.net> <36946218D9EC344498D59FD515FE20FB0A047F73F429@TITAN.dwholdings.local>
Contact Mr. Gasket. They make the Payen gaskets and have a great tech 
department you can easily talk to. Ask them.
Barry 

    On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:48 AM, Edward Dunn via Fot <fot at 
autox.team.net> wrote:
 

 Excellent analysis, Dr. Dunst...

What advantage would a different gasket material have, say... copper? 

Edward Dunn
President

Quality Fuel Trailer and Tank Inc.
4580 Klahanie Drive SE
Suite 423
Sammamish, WA 98029

425-526-7566?? x 7012





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From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Mordy Dunst via 
Fot
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 9:51 PM
To: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] Re-torquing a cylinder head - GT6

Composite Fiber gasket material has internal micro gas pockets.? Depends on the 
quality and repeatability of the original gasket material.? When heated the gas 
expands and seeps out from areas of least resistance.? Perhaps after a few heat 
/ cool cycles all those? internal gas pockets that were present when New have 
been vacated.? The gasket then creeps upon itself and becomes imperceptibly 
thinner.? Hence the original axial tension is now reduced.? Perhaps some parts 
of the gasket are more inhomogeneous than others and leads to a mismatch in 
"torque".? 

That's the nature of an inhomogeneous materials.? 

Anyways that's how I put it together.? 

Best
Mordy

MDunst Headgasket.com 626.358.1616
Fax 626.628.3777
Triple R Munitions, Inc 626.201.9471
T FFL 6,7 SOT 2

On Tuesday, September 19, 2017, Scott Janzen via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> 
wrote:

I?m adjusting valves after the last race weekend.? For whatever reason, I put 
the torque wrench on a couple of the head bolts - and found maybe 90 degrees of 
movement on the few nuts I checked. 

I run a Payen head gasket - composite with a metal ring at the combustion 
chamber.

Should I:
loosen one nut at a time, lube with moly as provided by ARP, and retorque to 
ARP spec; tighten from the current position to ARP spec (75 ft-lb) do nothing

The engine has probably four race weekends on it.? I can honestly say I have 
never re-torqued Payen gaskets before, but I have also re-checked the torque on 
other gaskets and not found any movement.


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