No I'm not British.
My bud Mark and myself dropped the FE in the cobra on Saturday. Now time to bolt up the individual exhaust headers!! This is not an easy allignment job, PITA really.
So, we tried Percy's new XX Carbon exhaust gaskets. The construction is basically fuzzy carbon felt attached to both sides of a stainless steel razor blade.........yes, I did say razor, you know where this is headed..........
Holy friggin' WOW.........putting the bolts in the manifold from under the car, the first surgical incision came quickly, it laid open the naughty finger on my left hand. I thought at first it was from the aluminum heat shield. I WAS WRONG.
After applying peroxide & sterri strips I got back to the garage, by that time Mark already had 2 separate blood trails over to the drawer of masking tape to stop the bleeding of his injuries.
When my wife got home there was blood all over the car and garage. Yeah, we were leaking pretty bad and wiping the stuff all over ourselves.......... we looked like a scene right out of "Fight Club". Masking tape on almost every finger we finally took a look at each other and busted out hesterically laughing................shock I presume.
I said "that's it, no mas", and we yanked those *****es out. Because I knew every time I would have to replace spark plugs, pull plug wires or just general cleaning, I would end up with bloody stumps.
Anyway, I ordered a set of Cometics gaskets, in a couple of weeks when the wounds heal we will throw them in.
Hope this was helpfull................
Best, Bret.
