Nissan 200SX Club - South Africa

Hey guys ive blown my head gasket ... was driving on n14 coming back from pretoria when the small. water pipe that goes from the steel tube to another joiner by the inlet manifold the pipe popped buy by the time i realised the damage was done ... now what do i do next .... im stripping the car 2morrow after noon . do i need to get head checked for cracks where do i get a steel head gasket from ??

Can see some smoke coming from under the inlet manifold and blup sound coming from water bottle.

Car is a 1992 nissan 200sx s13 ca18det
.. mods on the car free-flow and air filter

sorry about the repost , i was using my cell when i posted this ....

Hi, sorry to hear about this.

You have a few obsions, most engineering places can scim the head and pressure test it, as for the steal HG, youd most propably need to contact one of the import companies/guys on the site, it's around R1100-1200 for a MLS head gasget or you could go for a copper gasget for around R650, got a place that cuts them.

Sorry to hear that you having a bit of a rough one!! welcome to the joys of owning a 200sx. You can get a cometic HG from rezloshop maybe OPR

if your sx is nit modded, fit Payne... it's affordable.

if you wanna fit MLS. skeem head and block if possible and fit ARP as 20 year old stock bolts might not hold torque for MLS.

hey guys ok so the plan was to put a t3/t4 garret hybrid turbo while the head is off and put a new intercooler on so i think maybe i should look at a copper gasket . anybody have prices for Arp head bolts ?? where can i get ?

If you go for the copper gasget you will have to go for arp's, in general it needs to be over torqued, the mls gasgets does not really nead over torqing, the standard bolts will go to 110 nm no problem which is more than you need, but arp's is always good.

just remember arp's comes with some difficulty, the studs makes it more difficult to pull head and put it back because of the leangth, also need to adapt a special long socket, needs to fit into the head, that means a 13 must be either milled down to 17mm on the outside ot ground down, you also need a 3/16'th allen key to turn the studs in and out...that info's gonna cost you buddy!!!

Drillergy can get u arp studs

Turbodirect sell ARP studs. They in Jhb.

they dont have for ca18 only sr20

I would rather buy from Drillergy then Turbo Direct.

Charlvdw wrote:I would rather buy from Drillergy then Turbo Direct.

+1 support a 200sx member before anyone else

i agree to supporting a member before anyone else. while on the subject Drillergy can you please give some pricings as i am also interested my headgasket is still fine but i,m looking to up the boost to 1.0bar on my standard ca18

thanks guys.
I can't remember off hand. I will check later and update.