GST Racing Seals has over 35 years of experience in sealing, including nearly 25 years devoted to global motorsports, high performance road and off-road vehicles.
GST Racing Seals specialises in higher performance oil and grease seals. GST products can be designed for most motorsport applications. We now also offer a great range of seals for use on Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs) plus a range of Automatic Transmission Seals, contact us for more information.
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Sealing Solutions to Put You in First Place
Take, for instance, GST's HD2 Seal. Their HD2 Seal Is a very efficient Bi-Directional Hydrodynamic Seal which has been used to overcome reliability problems experienced in other seals & particularly in Transmissions.
The seal design is similar to the normal rubber seals & the refinement is in the local design details for the innermost areas of the lips where we add moulded protrusions (aids) close to the contact zone. The pumping effect of the “aids” generates a thicker-than-normal oil film in the contact zone under the lip reducing rubbing friction & cooling the lip/shaft interface.
The pumping effect of the “aids” generates a thicker-than-normal oil film in the contact zone under the lip reducing rubbing friction & cooling the lip/shaft interface.
Bearing Seal Design
GST's Bearing Seal design is built on their long & specialist experience with miniature seal sections for Automotive & other applications & providing unique designs to improve various aspects of performance. Their ability to design & manufacture these miniature seal sections along with special material developments has provided many solutions to difficult applications.
They can in many cases, offer the benefits of bespoke rubber compounds or the bonding of PTFE facings on the seal lip.
The seals can be designed to be an integrally mounted in the special recesses within the bearing or designed to sit alongside the bearing interacting with surfaces of the bearings & housings.
Motorsports Bearing and Engine Seal Applications
Where most production Bearings & Hub Units are designed for long life & reliability it is necessary in some higher performance applications such as Motorsports to examine the form & function of each aspect of the seal design to ascertain where friction-reduction might be found, or where the dirt exclusion properties might be improved.
GST's lead engineer Richard Kennison's experience with these compact products has in fact contributed to the success of their 1-pc F-Type Rear Crankshaft Seals for older engines which traditionally used unreliable 2-pc seals. In many cases in those older engines the combination of poor seal quality & materials has given oil leakage & reliability problems which have been endured for many decades. The unique design of his F-Type Seals based on small Bearing Seal sections has enabled GST to provide much improved reliability & performance for our customers & leak-free engines even when using original narrow Rope Seal groove designs.