Exhaust gasket material

[SUX2BU]

A link to your diy thread would be nice. You got me all curious.

[thahemp]

Here you go.

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=229346

[IndeedSS1]

Originally Posted by thahemp

I called Jeff @ Solo. He was very helpful.

To start with, he's going to send me a couple new gaskets to try. Since I got mine used, I need to try that first. He said there is pretty much no generic gasket material that will hold up like the formed ones they supply.

He did ask to see some pictures. I pointed him towards the DIY thread. Hopefully he has time to check it out. I need to shoot him an email with the link.

He said that they have sold plenty of midpipes for 2012's, and he wasn't aware of any problems. That's a good sign. I'm hoping I just got the wrong gaskets somehow.

[thahemp]

Yup. With his involvement, i know i'll get this figured out properly. Thanks for the nudge

[thahemp]

Now my passenger side is definetly blown. Those 2499 gaskets are pure junk. Something worth mentioning is that Jeff said to make sure you wire brush the surfaces after you blow a crappy fiber gasket. They tend to leave material on the flange surfaces.

[LIM3]

i purchased a sheet that i was able to cut into the shape of the gasket.
it was bought at my local store "NAPA"

[IndeedSS1]

[QUOTE=thahemp;5163024]Now my passenger side is definetly blown. Those 2499 gaskets are pure junk. Something worth mentioning is that Jeff said to make sure you wire brush the surfaces after you blow a crappy fiber gasket. They tend to leave material on the flange surfaces.[/QUOTE]


That is a good tip.

[thahemp]

Originally Posted by LIM3

i purchased a sheet that i was able to cut into the shape of the gasket.
it was bought at my local store "NAPA"

That's probably similar to what i'm using atm. 2499 is a sheet of material that has perferated sheet metal sandwiched between 2 layers of fiber. The fiber keeps blowing out of them.

[thahemp]

The new gaskets that i got from solo this week are the same as the ones i had. They did send me new hardware though, which i needed after over-tightening countless sets of bolts and snapping off the resulting cross-threaded nuts.

The final analysis here is that none of this stuff lines up as well as you think. Basically, it looks really effed up when you check it, but it actually installs ok with the proper technique. That technique being:

1) line everything up carefully before tightening anything.... Duh.
2) don't over-torque the bolts. 18-20 ft/lbs is the right number.

[IndeedSS1]

Originally Posted by thahemp

The new gaskets that i got from solo this week are the same as the ones i had. They did send me new hardware though, which i needed after over-tightening countless sets of bolts and snapping off the resulting cross-threaded nuts.

The final analysis here is that none of this stuff lines up as well as you think. Basically, it looks really effed up when you check it, but it actually installs ok with the proper technique. That technique being:

1) line everything up carefully before tightening anything.... Duh.
2) don't over-torque the bolts. 18-20 ft/lbs is the right number.

Glad you got it all worked out.