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Yo. in the process of changing turbos (stock), need a couple of pointers pls. The turbo drain gasket, would it be ok to cut another out of ACL oil joiner gasket paper, or does it need to be some special gasket material to handle the high temps I'm guessing it will cop due to being on the turbo? as in, paper is probably going to overheat and catch alight and burn my car to the ground which is not what i'm after. Also where the hell do u buy copper washers from? Went to a few auto and bolt stores, and could only find those crappy prepacked ones that were all wrong sizes. Nissan wanted 36 bucks for SIX copper washers (get the farrrrk out)...

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Hi Andy,

I know it may not be exactly what you're after however I can offer you a genuine Nissan RB25DET turbo gasket kit, pictured below, for $88.00 delivered.

Regards,

Andrew Sullivan

Kudos Motorsports

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Yo. in the process of changing turbos (stock), need a couple of pointers pls. The turbo drain gasket, would it be ok to cut another out of ACL oil joiner gasket paper, or does it need to be some special gasket material to handle the high temps I'm guessing it will cop due to being on the turbo? as in, paper is probably going to overheat and catch alight and burn my car to the ground which is not what i'm after. Also where the hell do u buy copper washers from? Went to a few auto and bolt stores, and could only find those crappy prepacked ones that were all wrong sizes. Nissan wanted 36 bucks for SIX copper washers (get the farrrrk out)...

i dont think the turbo drain will catch fire, it is connected to the core which has coolant running thru it, so use the paper based one, its the dump that you dont use a paper one, its a soft alloy of metal i believe, should be able to get copper washers from a bolts shop, even a place like diesel spares would stock that stuff, the kudos package looks like what you need and at good price and good to deal with too. ;)

thanks for the offer Kudos, I have ordered from you before and your service and prices is top-rated and quite precise, I would not feel bad being taken by you in the shower if we were in prison together. Just that I am now unemployed and trying to do this shizz as cheap as possible as I have no work, although I was thinking of advertising as a transporter if anyone wants any cargo moved...no questions asked or answered.

and to the other dude, I know i should be able to get that from a bolt shop right? and it was doing my head in, everyone saying nahh mate, don't have any....I'm like why you holding out with the copper, just give it up dude, bring it in with my sizes n shit. Seriously wouldn't mechanics n that being needing copper washers on a daily basis, and in more than just 6 prepacked imperial sizes, come on get with the metric system. So would like to know where the copper washer warehouse is that I am completely unaware of. But I have taken certain liberties with a quiet friday night and the paper gasket I cut out, and pulled out the high temp copper gasket goo and smeared a thin coat of it over the paper gasket I carefully constructed and have it hanging up to dry. Booyah in the morning I have a heat proofed gasket ready to go.

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