Will Geely change Malaysia auto parts game play?

DRB-Hicom Bhd and Zhejiang Geely Holdings Group have inked a definitive agreement under which the latter will acquire a 49.9% stake in the national car manufacturer for RM460.3mil. The full news can be seen in the below link,
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/06/24/geely-acquires-stake-for-rm460mil

And many are talking about the Geely Boyue model, which will form Proton's first SUV in Malaysia market,
https://paultan.org/2017/06/23/geely-boyue-suv-makes-first-malaysian-appearance/

And it remain mystery for me on the engine of this Geely Boyue, which it can be found online with the engine code of JLD-4G24, JLD-4G20 and JLD-4G18TDB, which no further details enclose if this engine is a modification from a Japan engine or a totally develop by Geely.

Will the said Proton's SUV using the Geely Boyue original engine or using the Proton's develop engine? If it is using the China made engine, the future engine parts game play in Malaysia market may have a changes if China engine start to dominate the popular model on the road.

Kia Optima K5 Valve Cover Gasket

In this post just to share a valve cover gasket on a Korea model, KP have no product on this gasket, it is just a sharing post because found this interesting design of the gasket.

The Kia Optima K5 with G4NC engine, have a rocker cover gasket like the above photo which show its OEM part number 22441-2E000, with the 2 pieces of rubber which you can see in the photo, the design is already quite different from other type of rocker cover gasket.

But that is not the end of story, they come up with another part number of 22441-2E300 which is shown as above photo, looks similar, but actually have a longer stretch on the outer rubber.

And from the above photo, you can see the different between 22441-2E000 and 22441-2E300 more clearly, the gasket is 22441-2E000, which try to install on a rocker cover which should use 22441-2E300, and you can see 22441-2E000 is actually shorter and have a missing stretch on it.

Toyota 1G-FE Gasket

The Toyota 1G-FE gasket which use in Altezza or Mark II GXE10 and GX115, is a bit different from other Toyota 1G series of gasket, firstly their cylinder head gasket is metal type or MLS type which in other model of 1G cylinder head gasket is using graphite material.

The intake manifold gasket for this model is also rubber o-ring type which other 1G series of intake manifold gasket is using paper type of gasket or asbestos material.

Boon Koon VIFLEX 2.0 Van Full Set Gasket

Boon Koon Group Berhad is a public listed company trading in Bursa Malaysia since 2004, for their business details, you may visit www.boonkoon.com for further information, what I'm interested now is one of their product, the Boon Koon Viflex 2.0 Van, which although not so popular, but some time you still can found it on the road as a commercial purpose vehicle.
 

The engine which installed in this Boon Koon Viflex 2.0, actually is a China made engine, although it is a 2.0 capacity engine, the whole engine head and block seems not so big in size, there are not much info in the internet, except an engine model code of "DLCG12" shown in the Viflex 2.0 specification introduction brochure.

The rocker cover design as such using 2pcs separate of rocker cover gasket.

And the full set gasket content seems simple and very straight forward.

Subaru BRZ or Toyota 86 Gasket?

When doing Google searching, found some interesting info for sharing, actually most of us already known that the Toyota 86 (Some may call it GT86 or 86 GT) is using the Subaru FA20D engine which is use in Subaru BRZ, so when come to buying Toyota 86 engine parts, will you buying on Subaru brand or on Toyota brand?

Actually Toyota have an engine code for their 86 engine, Subaru call it FA20D and Toyota call it as 4U-GSE, and for the gasket kit part number, you may found Subaru using 10105-AB550, and Toyota is using SU003-00094.

Sound interesting, come with different brand name and part number, their content may be exactly the same, for other gasket content inside the kit set, Subaru and Toyota should be also have a list of different part number among them, anyone know that Subaru and Toyota which of them will set their gasket pricing higher?

Mitsubishi L3E Engine Gasket

Sometime when customer look for gasket which is not so common in our product range is quite challenging, for example if they looking for gasket for mini excavator which using Mitsubishi L3E engine.

This Mitsubishi L3E engine is mostly use in the industrial field which I think is totally not use for passenger car.

Mitsubishi L3E engine is a 3 cylinder water cool diesel engine, with 952cc capacity, with 76mm bore and 70mm stroke.

Subaru Oil Separator Gasket

Found an interest part at the Subaru EJ20 engine rocker cover area, I think not all the EJ20 series have this part but what they call it as rocker cover oil separator, for the above diagram, check it out on 11831 and 11832.

And for this rocker cover show above, can you see the black cover on the upper left of the rocker cover?

The first diagram which show item 11831 is the above item which is the black cover you can find beside the rocker cover, and the below photo show the item 11832 which is the gasket sit between the above black cover and the rocker cover, and they call this as oil separator gasket.