Cosworth hR/VHR Headgaskets are no longer available!?

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Aug 14, 2018 | 11:08 AM

Tran251

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Cosworth hR/VHR Headgaskets are no longer available!?

Ive checked all the major venders and I can’t seem to get a set of Cosworth HR/VHR Head gaskets. Anyone know where I can get a set? ConceptZ and Z1 are out.

Sep 14, 2018 | 09:56 PM

Juztin

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I'd recommend considering Dynosty head gaskets, that's what I went with this second time around and haven't had coolant issues (whew!). I've tried HR stock head gaskets & Cometic both of which failed. Been fine since going with Dynosty's.

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Sep 15, 2018 | 06:44 PM

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I'd go with an HR gasket ... readily available and not too expensive. The best head gasket in the world wont save your engine from a bad tune or improper head-stud installation.

Sep 16, 2018 | 07:37 AM

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I got dynostys gaskets and returned them because it was for the DE. I already modded the block for HR gaskets. I ended up getting cometic gen 3 gaskets from concept Z. Thanks Juztin

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I'd go with an HR gasket ... readily available and not too expensive. The best head gasket in the world wont save your engine from a bad tune or improper head-stud installation.

True. Thanks for the tips about hp academy bealjk! They’ve been helping me get a better understanding on how to tune. You were right. I told them that I already knew what the course was about and they gave me a discount on the practical stand alone tuning course.
I ended up getting the Haltech EMS because from what I seen, it’s really simple to configure and I can get dual CAN widebands. My local tuner said he was going to give me some pointers on tuning when on the dyno so that was also a plus.
Do you remember how u had the air temp sensor hooked up? I will hook up the probe at where the air leaves the intercooler. Or should I hook it up on the charge pipe right before the TB? As for the wiring, did you get the power from the ecu out or should I run separate 12+ and ground then just the signal to the ecu?

Sep 16, 2018 | 06:10 PM

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Yea sorry forgot to add that part I'm an HR as well, went with the Dynosty HR/VHR head gaskets. No worries though, best of luck on your setup! It seems a lot of VHR stuff can just be used for our HR's.

Sep 19, 2018 | 08:30 AM

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Dynosty discontinued the hr gaskets. They just have DE now. I had to get cometic as there is no other choice now. You lucked out juztin and caught them right in time.

Sep 21, 2018 | 08:02 AM

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Dynosty discontinued the hr gaskets. They just have DE now. I had to get cometic as there is no other choice now. You lucked out juztin and caught them right in time.

Damn that sucks to hear they discontinued it, but I *think* for what it's worth that you can just run a VHR head gasket in the future to get more vendor/product options if you do have to do a do-over. Kinda like how you can run the VHR block with the HR heads kinda thing.

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