Best fire ring to seal sportex manifold to standard centre section?

1. AL3X_ Established Member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1434

   #1 9th August 2011, 01:05

   I have a newly fitted sportex manifold fitted to a standard centre section flange and it is ever so slightly blowing...barely noticable but i'm picky. I have tried to gasket taken from my reg number from motaquip which this happens....i then asked then to get me a slightly fatter one....although with this fitted it just disintegrated when tightened and blew badly....
   
   Would i be best trying one from andrew page motor factors or getting one from citroen direct? Or maybe even slightly bend the joint on the mani with mole grips and crush it down to fit? I would use paste but obviously the point of the fire ring is to let the exhaust tilt on the springs?
   
   
   Cheers
2. Ben_SaxoForte Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Mar 2009 Stoke-on-trent Posts: 2640 Mk5 Golf GTTDI Mk2 VTR Project

   #2 9th August 2011, 01:20

   I had a sportex manifold on my vtr a while back I could never get the bloody thing to seal I sold it in the end.. the only think I can think is possibly you need a sportex centre pipe as I don't think they are a very good fit to the standard centre on the vtr
3. AL3X_ Established Member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1434

   #3 9th August 2011, 01:25

   Mine is pretty much sealed mate...its just like a pinhole of gas escaping through you cant even hear it from outside the car...i just like everything to be perfect so thought id try some other gaskets?
4. Ben_SaxoForte Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Mar 2009 Stoke-on-trent Posts: 2640 Mk5 Golf GTTDI Mk2 VTR Project

   #4 9th August 2011, 01:29

   Yeah I'm the same mine was only a tiny bit but it was enough to get on my nerves lol, but yeah if you can find a gasket thats a good fit hopefully should do it
5. Vtr_Cam Frequent Poster Joined: May 2010 neath port talbot Posts: 984 Wicked Red VTR mk2

   #5 9th August 2011, 03:00

   Some exhaust paste over the pin hole and it should seal it up.
6. AL3X_ Established Member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1434

   #6 9th August 2011, 08:03

   Its on the part where the seal ring goes though mate....which needs to tilt so paste won't work will it?
   
   Like i say i'm gonna try a new gasket but cant decide whether to get a motor factors one or one from citroen direct....will there be any difference?
   
   Cheers
7. AL3X_ Established Member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1434

   #7 9th August 2011, 11:28

   Bump, does anyone have an idea so i can get one after i finish work?
   
   Cheers
8. AL3X_ Established Member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1434

   #8 9th August 2011, 12:12

   Bump, does anyone have an idea so i can get one after i finish work?
   
   Cheers
9. dan-sport Infrequent Poster Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 236

   #9 9th August 2011, 12:30

   paste would work fine mate, if its gonna be such a small amount it wont matter about movement
10. AL3X_ Established Member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1434

    #10 9th August 2011, 13:24

    Ah really? Ill try that then, cheers
11. AL3X_ Established Member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1434

    #11 10th August 2011, 00:28

    On my way back from work i went to get a gasket and some jointing paste from pages as citroen only sold them as fitting kits and had none in stock....i got back and jacked the car up and it seems the paste i put on yesterday has sealed the hole lol....so we shall see how it goes...it was hard to hear the blowing yesterday as it was a tiny pinhole but today i couldnt hear it at all even with a mate revving it as i was underneath...
12. Bedford126 Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Jul 2010 Morley, Leeds Posts: 8469 Civic ep3 type r powered by TDI NORTH

    #12 10th August 2011, 00:34

    Paste is bodgey as fuck and should have ordered one from pages they could of had one to you in a hour.
13. AL3X_ Established Member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1434

    #13 10th August 2011, 01:13

    I've got one from pages mate....didn't fit it as the one I fitted the other day from motaquip has sealed fine with a very slight smear of paste where the gap was.
    
    I fail to see how the paste is "bodgy as fuck" if even the brand new gasket won't fully seal on the sportex mani, i was thinking a proper method would be to bend the lip of the sportex mani down a bit decreasing its size so the gasket fits better? Otherwise I dunno because although the gasket is quite new it still leaked out of a tiny pin hole through it?
    
    Do you think the pages one will fit better than the motaquip one, they are the same part number on the wrapper?
14. AL3X_ Established Member Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1434

    #14 10th August 2011, 01:46

    If you could PM or post a way to sure fire seal it just using the gasket bedford i'll happily try that? Seems the sportex joint is a bit awkward though, so if the paste is keeping it sealed then what else can i do lol