Sunday, June 28, 2020

Toyota 2JZ-GTE Exhaust Manifold Gasket























For the inline 6 cylinder engine, which the exhaust manifold gasket will also have the 6 main exhaust hole, some of their gasket may design as such to separate it to 2 pieces so that the gasket will be not too long, but normally they design it as such the 2 pieces of gasket are same.

But that isn't  the case for Toyota Supra 3.0 2JZ-GTE exhaust manifold gasket, the gasket is design as 2 pieces separately for one engine, but that 2 pieces are with different design.

Friday, June 26, 2020

Mitsubishi Triton Rocker Cover Gasket


















Let's have a look on the 2 difference design of the rocker cover for the Mitsubishi Triton model which currently common on the road in Malaysia, the above photo showed the Mitsubishi 2.4 MIVEC 4N15 engine rocker cover which is consider a bit new in Malaysia, their rocker cover gasket is more straight forward which attached together with plug seal.

The photo below is the Mitsubishi 2.5 4D56T 16V engine, or some call it as KB4T engine, which when one time of rocker cover servicing, you may need to change a piece of rocker cover gasket, 4 pieces of plug seal, 4 pieces of nozzle seal, and a set of o-ring which consist of 3 pieces same design of o-ring and 1 piece o-ring which is different from others. So should consider this rocker cover design in quite complicated manner.


Subaru IHI RHF4 Turbocharger Gasket


















This 2 pieces of gasket is use on Subaru IHI RHF4 turbocharger gasket should be found on those Subaru EJ20 series engine model, but it is quite common to found some Daihatsu K3-VET and JB-DET owner is modified their turbocharger to this Subaru type of turbocharger.

This turbocharger is normally on the twin turbo Subaru model.



Friday, June 19, 2020

Mazda MX-5 NC Intake Manifold Gasket























Mazda MX-5 2005 NC model is using the Mazda L8 or LF engine code, which this engine code is use on Mazda 5, Mazda 6, Premacy, Axela and Atenza as well, most of the items in the gasket kit is the same items which is interchangeable in each model, but the intake manifold gasket for the MX-5 NC model have some modification from other model, which make their gasket is unique to use in MX-5 NC model but not in other LF engine model.

The rubber type intake manifold gasket KP part number is KC305138 and the metal type is KC305134, both under OEM part number LFE2-13-135 and LFE2-13-111.