[sperry]

I dropped by Napa over the weekend to see if I could find some gasket material to finally rid myself of that damned up-pipe leak. I saw Khails "WRS" parked outside, so I was like... sweeeet.

Anyway, Khail and his coworked parsed through their catalog trying to find me something that would work that was cheaper than the $70 for a sheet of flexible graphite. Low and behold Khail found this ceramic looking stuff that said it was "sutable for exhaust and turbo gasket applications"... sounds just about right, right?

Well, it was $22... but since I "work for Alpine Roofing" according to Khails buddy... $8.. cha-ching!!

So I took that shit home and went to work with various tools, trying to cut my own gaskets... Hole-saw? doesn't work. Roto-Zip? doesn't work. Dremel? doesn't work. Cordless Drill? doesn't work. So, after I ran out of power tools... I grabbed my scissors. They work. F-me and my power tool mentality! It took 6 failures before I actually cut out a pair of useable gaskets.

So I dropped the header, and wedged a pair of these gaskets in there. Torqued everything back up. Then hit the test drive. No leaks!!! Went from a cool engine to a hot-as-hell engine and I hear zero leaks. Then this morning, gave it a good push on a really cold motor (which I normally avoid doing) and it still didn't leak. I think I may *finally* have this up-pipe leak licked!! Oh, and I can drop the passenger side header in literally 2 minutes now that I've practiced it so much over the last 6 months.

Thanks a ton Khail!! Hey, you need to show up to the next meet, we got new people that haven't seen the WRS.