Euro exhaust manifold/dp gasket available at dealer?

[area53 at validpath.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

I highly doubt the euro gasket is available.

Try getting a sheet of either copper or galvanized (I got some 
galvanized at Home Depot, not sure about copper) and cut the openings to 
size. They use copper to shim headgaskets, and they use metal gaskets on 
exhaust, should be worth a shot....

HTH, JT

Mark F. wrote:

>Anyone know if the euro (GTI) dual outlet exhaust manifold to downpipe
>gasket is available at the dealerships here in NA?  I guess I'm asking
>if the same gasket was used on another vehicle sold here...
>
>I had a 'domino effect' day working on the 86 today - frustrating to
>say the least...  I set out to simply swap my hollowed out cat with a
>'temporary' good cat borrowed from Cathy, so I can get my (only and
>final) e-test done.  After having a bitch of a time removing those
>BASTARD top flange bolts on both sides of the cat I proclaimed
>"Victory is mine!" a bit too early - Cathy's cat was almost an inch
>longer, and the flanges were much larger than the ones on the car. 
>Damn...  Well no problem, I thought, I have remnants of about 10
>exhaust systems in the shop - I should be able to cobble together
>something...
>
>After searching through my pile I couldn't find any flanges that
>matched the new cat's, so I went to plan "B".  Screw the e-test, I'll
>talk to a friend of a friend and pay the extra $ for a 'rubber
>e-test'...  So I picked out my nicest spare TT race downpipe, found a
>new gasket, and set to work to remove the TT 'shorty' downpipe.  Hmmm,
>those manifold studs look like 10mm...  Little did I know that the car
>had a Euro GTI exhaust manifold on it - which, to my surprise, not
>only has the larger studs but the flange itself is larger.  Back to
>the pile-o-parts, but no dice, all my spares have the U.S. flange... 
>Curse level 6 was promptly breached...
>
>Next plan - remove the U.S. dual outlet exhaust manifold from my old
>ABA/JH engine and swap it into the 86 so I can get this thing back on
>the road today.  But NO, stymied yet again - I spotted two broken
>manifold to dp studs...  There goes that plan - I'm in no mood to
>extract broken studs at the moment, and that manifold has a small
>hairline crack in it anyways...
>
>So, now I have a rather large pile of perfectly good exhaust parts in
>front of me, but no workable solution to make them fit each other... 
>And to make matters worse, I destroyed the euro mani/dp gasket when I
>removed the downpipe, so I can't even put things back the way they
>were...
>
>My plan now is to source a euro gasket, and cut and weld a section
>from the euro-flanged shorty downpipe to one of my spare TT race
>downpipes to adapt it to fit the euro manifold...    I know TT sells
>the euro gasket, but it'll take a while for it to get to Canada, so
>hopefully I can locate one quickly...  I'm a master at making
>something work out of parts and pieces at hand, and many times have
>surprised even myself with my Macgyver-like resourcefulness, but
>sometimes I have to admit defeat I guess...  :(
>
>Later,
>
>Mark.
>75
>80 S
>86
>90 Audi Coupe Quattro - 10vt
>
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