Felpro Engine Intake Manifold Gasket Set

The plenum gasket (top left item in picture) is not as pictured. The idle air control gasket (top right item in picture) is ALSO not as pictured. I made the claim to my store in Staunton, VA that it seemed like Felpro mispacked this particular set I ended up with. The store seemed completely convinced, however, that they were just a different style of the required parts and could have been installed. I don't believe them and told them so. What I got instead of the flat fiber plenum gasket was a set of 3 pairs of blue attached circular rubber gaskets of the same material as the S-shaped gaskets that go under the intake manifold. The width of the attachment is about 1/16" as opposed to the 1/4" width between the holes in the flat gasket. So they wouldn't have fit in the spots correctly. These seemed to be a type of O-ring requiring a recess in the metal to hold them in place. Neither the plenum nor the intake manifold have those recesses. They also obviously would not have covered the entire mating surface. The included gasket that was supposedly for the idle air control was a smaller version of one of the pairs I described above. Same story. The width of the attachment is MUCH thinner than the space between the holes in the IAC. No recess to accommodate them. Would not cover the whole mating surface. I don't know who would be comfortable installing those parts. Not me. There is no way they would fit or stay in place during installation. I also really doubt they could perform their sealing function. If Felpro really DID intend these parts to be just a different style of the former parts, this is misguided and unacceptable. If I was right about them not being for my car at all, my store should have owned up to that. Most importantly, I got a product that did not match what I thought I was buying. That's not OK. All this being said, my store DID refund a portion of my purchase price for the unusable parts which I was satisfied with.

Probably better than the factory gaskets...

This is the second visit to replace a cracked cylinder head that was leaking antifreeze into #5 cylinder. I had also noticed that the oil level was not topped off. When I removed the intake manifold I found a 1/16 inch section of gasket missing that was allowing oil from under the valve cover to be sucked into the intake valve chamber.

Perfect fit.

Basic intake gasket set