<VV> A/C Production/AC heads/gaskets

[Bob Tarpenning]

I bought some base gaskets from Clark's, maybe 20 years ago, that were
copper and I think .052 to lower the compression for burning regular gas.
Bob T

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Subject: Re: <VV> A/C Production/AC heads/gaskets

Bob - According to the factory all 1965-67 140hp cars with air conditioning
came with .022 thick copper barrel to block gaskets. These were made of
copper but the only place copper was used in a barrel to block gasket - Lon



On 5/31/2012 12:52 PM, BobHelt at aol.com wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> As far as I know the cylinder base gaskets were never made of copper.
There
>   would not be a reason to do so either. Every one I have ever seen was
> apparently steel.   Maybe the confusion comes from the fact that all  very
> early Corvair head gaskets were copper. I'm not sure when the 
> conversion  was made to steel, but all 1960-61 head gaskets were 
> copper as far as I know.  The thicker base gaskets were used ONLY on 
> the 1966 140 hp engine with  A/C.  I forget the thickness but can look 
> it up if need be. (Note that the  1966
> 140 hp engine was the only one that had factory air cond.) Regards, 
> Bob Helt
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 5/31/2012 12:08:46 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
> shortle556 at earthlink.net writes:
>
> Hi Bob,  Were the cylinder base gaskets (spacers) ever copper? Were 
> the A/C cars  thicker? How about turbo cars? Thanks, Timothy Shortle 
> in Durango Colorado  81301
>
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