6 cyl Gaskets (head)

[Eric Brumenil]

Originally Posted by Claude

Toby Silverton tells us the waiting list is now 18 months, thus his production goal of three cars per week is likely to be running at full tilt.
Claude

Toby told me that it takes more than 2000 hours to build a Fighter
3 a week mean 6000 hours and if they work 8 hours a day , this means 750 persons are working in Filton .
Wow this is not a so small company
This also means that they are selling about 120 Fighter a year , @ about £220000 each , it is £26.400.000 GBP a year

[julf]

Greg,

Although my London Cab is cool also :-)

I think I might have convinced Elaine that a London Cab would
be an OK alternative for when the Brigand or the Mog aren't
best suited for going to the garden centre.

Have you been getting my private mails?

Julf

[GREG]

Originally Posted by julf

Greg,

Although my London Cab is cool also :-)

I think I might have convinced Elaine that a London Cab would
be an OK alternative for when the Brigand or the Mog aren't
best suited for going to the garden centre.

Have you been getting my private mails?

Julf

Hi Julf

No private mails !

Sorry I missed you on the last visit but I ended up in the middle of nowhere
with colleagues from Sweden / Finland.

Bad hangover when I dropped them off at Schipoll -- what a surprise

The cab would be discounted for a good home like yours :-) and maybe a lend of your trailer.

[Geoff Kingston]

The web site address is www.discoweb.org I came across it when trying to decide what to do with dead air suspension on a P38 Range Rover I had bought, repair or replace with coils. The debate on that subject on the site had me laughing out loud sometimes so heated were some of the exchanges becoming, but there did seem to a bit of sport and p*** taking in it sometimes, hence the. comparison. I have in addition to the P38 an early 90's Range Rover LSE which displays some of the faults my first one had, a1972 example, and a Stage 1 V8 series 3 which is equally highly developed!!!
Geoff.


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[GREG]

As I am in the metals business !

If anyone can lend me a gasket to use as a template I will see if I can get a pile made up to sell at cost if of interest ? As many holes as you like

[peterf]

Hi Greg, Eric et al,

First post from me –
The head gasket saga of Eric and consequent postings by many has caused me to study the photo of Erics gasket and that of the one on Ebay at present.
I have also had a look in my shed and found a thin metal gasket (photo attached) which would be an original Item from the time our 100B2 engine was rebuilt in 1969/70 (done 1000 miles since then) or from a gasket set of that time. – It was rebuilt by my father, so I have never seen the gasket that went into the car, the thing is that, some surface rust is evident but I don’t think it has been used. All the holes appear to be the same as the other gasket photos, although the cylinder holes are more elliptical in shape than appear in the photos, I presume that the other gaskets are as well but because of computer screen ratios they appear more round in shape. It is I would say about .006 thou or approx. 0.15mm thick, certainly thinner than those others in the photos. I should hunt out my micrometer and get an accurate thickness.
Anyway either way it is an original product from the car or from Bristol Motor Company in 1969, so may be of interest or of use in context of this discussion. Maybe an excellent template !!??

Cheers

Peter F

[Bellerophon]

Peter what you have is the old corrotrue gasket which was the gasket which
was used at that time, however you had to be more accurate with your
fitting as there was no leeway. The BMW gaskets are much easier to fit being
thicker they bed down better and you have less chance of one blowing.
My regards,
Bellerophon