new Corteco Head gaskets finally available. and New HEI

[Guynn <amx69@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The White Seal Tech* head gaskets from Corteco have finally made it to 
market. The claims are that the white coating aids in cylinder seal. 
These are sold as a direct replacement for the common FelPro sandwich 
type gaskets. I have yet to install one to see what they crush to upon 
torque.

The Corteco is the same nominal thickness as the FelPro. The Corteco has 
steel sealing rings around the bores. It too is a sandwitch type gasket. 
It has a steel core with the white mottled coating. Also another real 
good thing they added to this gasket is an ''hour glass'' shapped piece 
of steel between the center two cylinders. This steel piece will help 
prevent  blown gaskets between the center cylinders

the coating has a fine texture sorta like Splatter paint in a trunk. It 
is said to heat up, and flow out to seal any imperfections in head or 
block surfaces. They also asre suppossed to Seal the heads, but they are 
not suppossed to stick to the heads or block. They advise NO SEALERS AT 
ALL< INSTALL DRY.!!!!!!!! They are marked TOP on one side but I rsee no 
difference in either side upon first glance over.This coating works well 
with the new Aluminum heads as well as cast iron.

Anyway they are about the same cost as FelPro and less than the ROL 
gaskets.Other than just looking at the piece and reading the 
manufacturers info I cannot tell more. I have a set going out to a 
customer this week . It will be a little while before he can tell me 
anything about the performance.

I Like that steel center insert, great idea. Detroit gaskets used those 
as well. Guess who bought out Detroit?/ How about Corteco!!!!

Proform has also released their All New AMC V8 HEI Delco type 
distributor. This is an all new piece it comes ready to run with Cap, 
Rotor, & coil in cap. It is like the DUI, only LESS MONEY. You can get 
one of these Proforms' for in the $250.00 with shipping range give or 
take a few bucks. The DUI is easilt $100.00 more. also it comes with a 
brand new distributor gear on it. It is ''different'' from any other AMC 
distributor gear I have seen. It has two cast in grooves around the 
straight shank end of the gear. I have seen no grooves, and one groove 
units from various sources. I have never in over 30 years seen a double 
grooved gear. I only mention this becauise some avaible gears do not 
meash well with other brands of gears. Since this unit looks different, 
I believe it needs looking at closely when installing it.

anyway, Gaskets & distributors are in hand, in stock.

Starting out to be a great AMC parts year already.
Regards,

Randy Guynn