inlet manifold gasket

[arjunior45]

After a long period of time I finally found that it's the inlet manifold gasket that causes all my idle problems - recently went up to 1700 rpm!!!

Which gasket do you suggest? The oem one or any other brand?

Should I replace the plenum hoses too, just in case? They are just 3 years old {or 11.000 Km old} and ...

[1NRO]

A new oe would be fine imo as they rarely go wrong, they are a pretty poor fit to the runner openings though so a little fettling would be worth doing, they tend to hang into the airflow which is not helping one bit. If a tweak in the right direction is something you'd fancy a phenolic type inlet gasket from ferriday engineering would be worth getting, it can do no harm only good.

Nik

[arjunior45]

Is our inlet manifold gasket the same one with the Lancia Delta Integrale?

[1NRO]

I'd say so, there's a few manufacturers of gasket sets so they vary a little but basically the same thing.