Now we just need to get Lynn, or Leon to install a set of these in a race
engine for a real test :-)
I have yet to have a problem with a stock seal. The water ring I reuse
over and over. It gets to be too long after one cycle, so I cut a piece out on
the diagonal and put the joint at the top of the housing with a drop of GE
100% silicone. Since the inner ring is cut through the intake port area
anyway, I just trim a bit from there.
Until I ran out of it, I used 18 gage Teflon insulated aircraft hookup
wire for the inner ring. I could use that stuff as many times as I
wanted to.
On the other hand, the stock seals are the minimum quality (typical
automotive thinking) that they can get away with, so the replacement idea is
not at all outlandish, if you have the sizes right. I have only lost one set
of rotor seals and that was from long time use of too small an oil cooler.
That failure did not affect engine performance, but the oil
would have run out in short order. The smoke cloud was impressive.
Lynn E. Hanover