Sunday, April 19, 2020
Honda S800 Engine Gasket
Today while browsing the Facebook, found some very beautiful Honda S800 photo in Hong Kong Automobile Magazine Facebook page, the Honda S800 is the Honda sports car introduced in 1965 Tokyo Motor Show, and in the production during 1966 to 1970.
In Malaysia, I'm hardly see a Honda S800 on the road, and don't know whether it is exist in Malaysia or not, so far I don't have any customer asking about this model engine gasket.
Out of curiosity, I also wish to check how the gasket kit for this Honda S800 looks like, it seems there are not much info after searching at the Google, and the best I can find is seem the gasket kit only have 2 pieces of gasket which is a cylinder head gasket, and one timing chain passage gasket.
Anyway for the car itself, it seem there are quite a lot still maintain in very nice condition, it is not sure if the gasket can be easily found on those country which have the Honda S800, but we are absolutely don't have this gasket and don't have any idea where to get it locally in Malaysia.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Toyota Supra B58 Cylinder Head Gasket
The new Toyota Supra is already known by their fans that they phase out the use of 2JZ-GTE engine, and change the engine which use in the BMW new Z4 M40i, the engine code for this BMW engine is B58B30M1 which Toyota just using the B58 engine code for their Supra series.
As this is consider a new engine, which most of the catalogue may not feature this engine gasket, out of curiosity, found a YouTube video that they tear down the Supra B58 engine for an upgrade, in this case I'm able the peek the looks of the cylinder head gasket.
From the video, it seems this engine also not using the rocker cover gasket, since the original gasket is not produce in Japan but in Germany, will Japan high performance parts company such as HKS and Tomei will produce the higher spec of this cylinder head gasket in the future?