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ok i am painting my crx soon and i have to pull the motor out so i am ordering some arp head studs and a new HG to reach my goal of 275-300hp stock bottom end.. i am wondering if i should spend the $111 bux to get an HKS metal gasket or if i should just stick with an OEM gasket.. for those of you who dont know this is for my DOHC ZC...

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MLS with Copper Spray. That'll be the consensus, I feel. ARPs, should clamp whatever you through in there down pretty well.


JP

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From what I've heard, you're better off with the HKS, no one seems to have luck with keeping the D16A1 gasket from blowing when really pushing power.

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really?? i have heard of people having some good luck out of oem ones with arp's

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most head gasket blow outs arent the gaskets fault, its either improper install/build or shitty tuning. OEM metal FTW


find me a thread on that other site that shows a HG blowing for no reason (aside from 50000000000 miles and over heating)

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thats what i was going to do is the oem but i was thinking about the hks one because its so JAYDM but either way..

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save ur money get oem spray with copper spray and seal it with arps and get it tuned prfessionally or it will BLOW AGAIN

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it hasent blown yet but this is more precautionary to reach my power goal

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If the A1 gasket is MLS, or another D series OEM MLS gasket works, use that. Otherwise go with the HKS.

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well i ahve heard all of the OEM ones are mls now.. i judt wonder if its really going to make that big of a diff.. plus i was reading and the hks one bumps compression to 9.9:1 so it may be OEM FTW..