Bob Darrah wrote:

I need some thoughts from the experts.

What are your thoughts on the one piece apex seals that were offered a
while back?

My E mail crashed and I lost all back messages so I can't go back to the
original sender, but from the marks left by the triangular corner seals
in my 20B, it looks like an improvement.

Is there any way to take some of the spring pressure off the corner
seal? It looks like it receives 18% of the force over 2% of the area,
and as a result produces a high wear area. A one piece seal shouldn't do
that.

Anybody know the truth?

Bob Darrah

I think you are right Bob. I would try Racing Beat for one peice
2 mm seals. If they don't handle it I think Ianetti has
a one piece ceramic 3 mm seal top of the line. You can probably
buy those through Racing Beat or Mazdatrix as well.
You will also have to have your rotors machined for 3 mm
seals I think.

Able Ibarra told me Ianetti was thinking of a 2.5 MM ceramic
over a year ago.

When I was looking for Ianetti web site I ran across this
interesting site.

  http://bisc.com/home/netb/rx7/2index.html

This page gives the part number for the two piece
Ianetti seals.

http://bisc.com/home/netb/rx7/third/information/parts/rebuild.html

The price shown here is a wee bit high so you can probably get
a better price elsewhere.

Paul Lamar
 
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