Do ALL Honda motors come with headBOLTs, not studs?
 

I have a jdm zc that has 4 outside headstuds on each side and bolts for the center. are these arp's or did zc's have stock headstuds?

they are not stock

curious I know that those "studs" are where the longer bolts go on a reg ZC

Careful using a mixmatch set. The studs will hold better than the bolts and you can pull threads from the block during heat cycles. Seen it happen on a y8 when dude lost a couple arp studs.

i think its ment to have the 2 middle ones as bolts.

Do i torque arp's down more then the stock 50ish with a graphite gasket?

cuz either my heads warped or somin cuz this is my third headgasket in 3 months heh, second this month. and i even turned the boost down to 8 for the past 2 weeks when this recent one let loose.

the head could be warped or could something be causing you to detonate and blow your HG?

i guess it could be its just a stupid rich basemap but i did set the step retard and lil aggressive, ending in barly 1 degree at 7ish psi, started at like .35 and .50ish ect. prolly a bad idea. ima make a det can and ---- befor ii turn it back up to 12

and this time it did go out in explosive fashion, i was skipping (literaly) past one of those new gti hatches about to catch traction in second and it just lost power. and i put-puted home knowing i won anyway heh.

its pritty safe to say that if all 3 times it blew, it blew on a diff cylinder/place its det and not warped right?

......i guess the boost controller not having a screw, ball or spring left in it would do it......

and there i was thinking my latest tune change was the ---- lmao

i love my honda, i already have the head off ready to machine and had a drink and a blunt, and its only 7:44 hah like 30 mins to get that ---- off

I LOVE MY HONDA =)

and i love how you dont have to unplug anything, if i didnt have a new t-belt i wouldnt have had to jack it up to do the whole hg.

Didnt even uplug the distributor, nothing just pushed the intake back and lifted it out.

if it blows again get a cometic mls head gasket. zc's are know for blowing head gaskets under boost! my buddy did the cometic and never had a problem. as for the hedad stud/bolts its probly got the b16 arp head studs on the outer and stock on the inner. get another set of b16 arp head studs and u wil have to cut the inners down to size. thats what we did and worked great for 3 years... its a obd1 zc with t3/t4 60 trim on 8psi making 228whp

damn thats nice power at 8 psi. i cant wait for my tune. im running like 12 psi and prolly not seein that power. and nothing about the motor is stock.

yea he made an extra 20hp just off of cam adjustment.... but as far as the head studs i would just spend the money and get another set of arp's and a cometic head gasket that will save u a lot of time in the long run and wont be going threw headgaskets like u go threw gas