Copper Questions - Need Advice

Thanks guys.
It looks like I will go for the Nissan gaskets.
I do have the proper Copper nuts 😳 .... So I will use it 😮 .
Widowmaker, I know this is an opportunity to comment on the above statement, but please refrain.....
I'm begging dude! 😢

@Woohaa if you only down for the weekend you wont get it done, all of that will take about a week.

@Vlade I am just using normal cheap crappy gaskets (R14 each) with a SHIT load of silicone. My exhaust get to 900degrees on a good run, the turbo is almost see throught at that temp and its fine. Between the turbo and manifold I am using a copper gasket.

If I wanted this done with the least amount of fuss I would go buy normal gaskets (obvious Payne or Nissan is a better option) and then a tube silicone. Just some advise when you tighten you bolts make them tight but as the manifold heats up and then cools down it will settle in its place and WILL need to be retightened when cold again. Use copper slip on the nuts, makes them easier to take off next time.

Just use Plan Nissan Gaskets.

Are you going to run crazy boost? Or something
I have had my fair share of blown exhaust gaskets and the truth is I was using cheap stuff.

Pay the R350 rand for the Nissan stuff and you will be happy.
I am

Yeah, gonna get Nissan stuff.
Going to run 0.9 bar boost once the gaskets are run in nice.

Maybe I can ask it here as well.
Do I modify the actuator to increase the boost, should I use a boost controller?
I also think my car suffers from boost creep. I read about this which says the actuautor is not 100% closed. How can I resolve this.

Apparently that's how they run standard.....I don't like boost creep.

A little tip to make sure your gaskets last inbetween the turbo to manifold and downpipe.

Take a centre punch and lightly tap it wif a hammer while allowing it to bounce around on the gasket surface.

This allows the gasket faces to "bite" into the gasket making sure the gasket moves with the expansion and contraction.
this has cured a few "problem" cars allready.

This is whats left of my copper gasket

wonder where the rest went 🙄
Wonder if its the reason my turbo is smoking like a B1TCH all of a sudden!!! Its fcuken krazy i cant take it anymore. 700km fcuken old 😈 😈

Got a new gasket from Nissan for R180. Its metal and looks really good! the one that was on there b4 the copper one looked like a type of paper gasket 😕 I thought that was Nissans.

WooHaa wrote:

Widowmaker, I know this is an opportunity to comment on the above statement, but please refrain.....
I'm begging dude! 😢

what? me? never!
(i dont know all that much about gaskets)

widowmaker wrote:

WooHaa wrote:

Widowmaker, I know this is an opportunity to comment on the above statement, but please refrain.....
I'm begging dude! 😢

what? me? never!
(i dont know all that much about gaskets)

but i'm quite sure he knows about copper nuts!!!!

BAM! you never expect the spanish inquisition!

when i rebuilt my engine a while back - i just coughed up for a full nissan rebuild kit. it came with a nifty tube of red silicone (probably the best i've come across), and some decent gaskets.

that lot has lasted me about 12 000km's already, and has seen some track use!

go with the nissan gaskets - i reckon although its hectic expensive, its justified by little hassle.

@VC.
DAMN! The Spanish 😮

ok, here goes then :
was your dad/grand dad/great grand dad/great great etc etc a copper by any chance?

(or maybe a female family member?)

No. Not thatI can think off, but I used to do volunteer work for the coppers many many years ago.
I was a resversist coppa

aaaah, ok makes sense!

otherwise it might have been something like "athlete's foot"

do you get copper nuts from eating too many doughnuts maybe?
or the sweaty stinky Hilux seats?
or the gun beating against your crotch as you are running?
maybe copper nuts is because the coppers sit around all day - that is why secretaries are mostly female
do coppers wear underwear under those coarse pants with the hungry looking zippers?
maybe the term came from horseback coppers... or bikercoppers 😕
or as a fond memory of the time that more coppers still had nuts?
(ok ok I know they don't care because the justice dept lets them down due to over full jails, so no flaming necessary - i'm just speculating here)

my real question is, are copper nuts a good thing or a bad thing? Are you sure they're not brass? (easy to check, put Brasso on - wont work for copper (you need Coppo))

you guys might have guessed - there's nobody at work to talk to today

kekeke