Suzuki Swift 1.4 and Opel Agila B Cylinder Head Gasket

The locally assemble Suzuki Swift 1.4  is using an K14B engine, which actually can be found in Opel Agila B model, which make us unsure whether this engine is develop by Suzuki or Opel.

But normally we found the cylinder head gasket as the design of the bottom type of the above photo, recently there are one Suzuki car with this K14B engine code, dismantle out the cylinder head gasket and found thee are differences between the one that market currently have. Is it a second generation of K14B engine?  

Honda Insight Hybrid Rocker Cover Gasket

Honda Insight Hybrid engine is consider the Honda L13 and L15 family type of engine, which is commonly use in City, Jazz, Fit and CRZ, the rocker cover have a bit modification from those non hybrid engine.

Just look at it, it may looks like the one use on the City or Jazz I-DSI model, but it have a longer stretch at one side, don't know if the area is for the engine to connect with the hybrid battery. This hybrid model also can found in Civic and Acura ILX 1.5 model.

Nissan Cafiro PA33 Intake Manifold Gasket

Some interesting part taken out from a VQ25 engine in Nissan Teana engine, the intake manifold gasket at the surger manifold area is totally difference from other VQ25 engine, it is a result from the difference between a VQ25DE engine and a VQ25DD engine.

VQ25DD engine, is use on Nissan Cafiro PA33 model, also can be found in model such as Stagea M35, Skyline V35 and Gloria or Cedric. So it is interestingly found it is in a Teana model in Malaysia market.
 

Honda Logo D13B, D15B Valve Cover Gasket

Today a customer sent the photo of a Honda rocker cover gasket and asking if we stock the gasket, and the square area which you can see in the above photo stun me for a while, and actually we don't have it, out of the curiosity, I try to figure out which model of Honda using this gasket, although the customer is telling that he is using a old model of Honda City.

After surfing around with the Google help, finally I found it's OEM part number as 12341-P7A-000, but actually I can't found this number in any of my hard copy catalog, and one of the website info show it use on a model call Honda Logo, model GA3 and GA5 with D13B and D15B engine.

Anyway I wonder if this is the only engine left in Malaysia market.

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.