Kancil L2 Turbo Exhaust Manifold Gasket

Malaysia had a lot of Kancil owner had modify their normal 6 valves engine to 12 valves turbo engine which they like to call it L2 turbo engine.

Although there are a lot of this L2 engine in Malayasia (The correct way to call this engine type should be Daihatsu EF-EL engine), it is quite difficult to get the quality engine gasket for this type of engine as most of the part are found in Japan, others which made locally are far away to be consider as a correct parts to be use in this engine.

In this article, we first introduce the diffrence between the local made and the original parts for exhaust manifold gasket on this engine.

In the photo, you can see the local made gasket is only using the normal abestos gasket sheet, which is doubt in sustaining the pressure and temperature that produce from this engine. And just look at the original parts, beside it is made by the high quality stainless steel, at each important hole there are bound with extra steel ring to made it more durable.

Of course, the price for this quality gasket easily cost about RM70 per piece which made the local product which may cost only between RM10 to RM20 still sellable as it may more affordalble for the car owner, but the effect to the engine may cost them more maintenance in the future if the wrong parts is use.

Safe the world resources

Normally I only talk about automotive spare parts especially engine gasket in this blog, many may wonder what is the relation on safe the world resources with this spare parts industry.

First of all, I would like to explain that all the engine gasket no matter in what material, it had already have its own specification and requirement on how can they stand for the pressure and temperature.

Normally with the needed specification, the material of this parts is not that cheap as they need to go through many processes and quality assurance tested. But with the highly competition, many player try to source for cheaper parts to get more profit in the market, guess what happen?

Many of this cheap material may just make up the shape it likes the original parts, but it normally can't stand the original pressure and temperature specification requirement, hence if consumer bought the cheap parts for the cost saving, may end up need to change the parts frequently as this parts broken easily.

It end up actually we are keep wasting all this resources from earth which we use it in the wrong area, this material may suitable to use in other area but just wasted in the wrong place.

This may occur in other industry as well beside the automotive spare parts industry, for sure, if we buy a more quality parts with a higher price, the parts may more durable and the chances to change the parts again is lesser and we save the resources in return. If we count on the labour charge that if we change the same parts too frequently, may be it is more costly if we buy a quality parts and get the labour charge once only.

Mitsubishi Triton 4D56

Since Mitsubishi come out with their Pajero Diesel 4D56 engine series, this type of vehicle is quite accepted in Malaysia market for every series they come out, from Pajero, to Storm and now latest with Triton, of course included Triton Lite.

The early series of 4D56 (which actually the first should be 4D55) cylinder head gasket as usual their material is slilicone type or the abestos free material, than it improve to graphite type and now of course it come to metal type.

Even the latest series of 4D56 Triton had improve to 16 valves engine instead of 8 valves in the pass year. Besides the increase of engine valves, it also move from SOHC to DOHC.

Nissan QG16DE Cylinder Head Gasket

Nissan QG16DE engine, which is use on the Nissan N16 1,596cc model in Malaysia market.

Recently we found the cylinder head gasket have 2 type of design, basically all the patern and hole are same for both design except the place which we pointed it as on the photo, at this moment, it is just old and new design on this diffrence shape of hole and it can be ignore and this 2 types of cylinder head gasket can be interchangeable of use.

4G93 DOHC ROCKER COVER

Mitsubishi 4G9series engine basically have the same design on the cylinder head, but for the rocker cover in intake manifold, they keep on have changes from 4G91, 4G92, 4G93 and 4G94.

For the 4G93 DOHC rocker cover, normally their designed with 3 goving, 2 groving at one side and another 1 groving at another side.

Recently we came across the rocker cover gasket with 4 groving (as on attached photo), this 4 groving design is quite rare for Mitsubishi Inline 4 cylinder engine, except for the 6A1series of DOHC V6 engine or 6G7series of DOHC V6 engine, it is hardly to find anothe 4 groving rocker cover designed from Mitsubishi engine.

EVO VR4 Cylinder Head Gasket

Since the introduction of the Mitsubishi 4G63 engine that install on VR4 or EVO, their cylinder head gasket had since evolve from graphite type to metal type. And at the stage of metal type gasket, it had change from the thickness from 0.4mm to 1.5mm due to the turbo charge modification.

As their original piston bore design at 85mm, their cylinder head gasket is design at a normal diameter of 86mm, but still there are more modification come up. With the piston bore modified to 86mm, the original size of cylinder head gasket is no more suitable for this usage purpose, hence, the requirement for the 86.5mm and 87mm diamenter on the cylinder head gasket had come out.

Toyota Prado Petrol Engine

Local Toyota Landcruiser Prado petrol engine is usung 3RZ type of engine, which it use for Toyota Tacoma 4 Runner in Japan.

This KP brand of head set gasket had the most complete content as you can see on the photo, if you happen to see other gasket brand on this model, you will notice there are a lot of item is not included.