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ok so i just fitted one of those stainless steel thin style gaskets for my hks gtrs turbo....do not use these!!! its not sealing....now i have to crawl home tonight and get a genuine one! they are much better and thicker.

i order a turbo gasket kit from gcg and they sent me the shithouse thin one for the t3 flang (turbo to manifold) and a genuine one for the turbo to dump pipe. the genuine nissan one is like 1-2mm thick, the stianless shit one is only 0.3-0.5mm thick and wont seal. i can feel the exhaust around the gasket. so f**king pissed off!!!!

now have to take turbo off again tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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spring washers are not a good idea in a heated application as the steel looses its 'spring' when heated. i'll just use the right gasket as there would be a reason nissan use thaone...he he how about that!

i'm gonna keep the same studs as replacing them will be to hard with out fully removing the turbo...unless someone would liek to challenge that idea. i have these new lock nuts from gcg so we'll see how they go...

so the saga continues...

i have the genuine gasket now...taking the M10 nuts off this evening and one of the studs decides to strip and loos a thread so the nut gets jammed!!!farrrkkk

so in the end the nut is so jammed that the stud comes out after much effort...!!!

anyway i now have a high tensile bolt in there so i can atleast drive home and back...

still sound like something isnt sealing well but i havent given her a full blast yet...

has anyone experience extreemly noisy injectors before???

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