{"id":4312,"date":"2018-09-03T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:47:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:47:40","slug":"rx7-exhaust-flange-gasket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/rx7-exhaust-flange-gasket\/","title":{"rendered":"RX7 exhaust flange gasket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Replacing the exhaust flange gasket on RX7<\/p>\n<p>Our newly acquired RX7 track car has had a small exhaust leak under the car. I suspected this was contributing to the huge backfire I got every time I went into turn 1 at Atlanta Motorsports Park. (Update: this turned out to not be the case.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The car has what looks like a Racing Beat header and two into one pipe adapter.<\/p>\n<p>I began by soaking the very rust bolts in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Q2qr7y\">PB Blaster<\/a>. I also did the work with the pipe just a little warm form driving the car into the shop.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_145749451.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4316\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_145749451-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_145749451-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_145749451-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_145749451-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What fell out surprised me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150242934.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4315\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150242934-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150242934-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150242934-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150242934-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These actually did a pretty good job of sealing. But I dug around in the spares we got with the car and found the proper gasket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150620892.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4314\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150620892-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"RX7 Exhaust gasket\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150620892-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150620892-768x1364.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_150620892-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I replaced all the nuts and bolts with new stuff from ACE hardware. The car is just a bit quieter now without the leak under the floor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_151753022.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4313\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_151753022-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"RX7 exhaust\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_151753022-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_151753022-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_20180903_151753022-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replacing the exhaust flange gasket on RX7 Our newly acquired RX7 track car has had a small exhaust leak under the car. I suspected this was contributing to the huge backfire I got every time I went into turn 1 at Atlanta Motorsports Park. (Update: this turned out to not be the case.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}