We have a sleeved F22A engine at the shop (89mm) and cannot find anyone that makes a headgasket this size. Someone said Golden Eagle modified stock headgaskets but they denied that. Does anyone know of a place that sells oversized F22A gaskets or at least could bore a stock one? We are a Cometic dealer and have tried to go that route along with several others and everyone has a listing for all of the Honda engines except the Accord F22A.

TIA

-bill

 

thats weird...i could have SWORN that golden eagle told me thats how they make their gaskets........

 

Ive had endless people refer me to GE, they told me negative on modifying a gasket

 

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me 2

 

I dont know if they still do it but they used to heres an old link where vince who used to be with golden eagle is responding to the same topic and says they do carry them his new name is mazda3racer ?He will help you just pm him?
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=890623

 

HA, so im not going crazy.

 

In one of their threads they amde they even said theya re OEM head gaskets.

 

GEM takes oem head gaskets and bores em

 

Yes, golden Eagle uses OEM headgasket and bores it. I saw their headgasket few times and you can clearly see the boring and all other modifications.

 

i coulda swore my Ge headgasket said honda on the package when i got it

 

I may be wrong but isn't the F22 block similar to the H sereis blocks?

U may get more info in the Prelude forum but I have a buddy who did a F block H head combo and turbo'd it also. I 'm not sure exactly what F block he used.

If they make an H series headgasket that goes up that high in MM then you can most likely use it.

 

I ran into this same problem around this time last year. I wound up just having my block o-ringed and having SCE custom cut me a copper head gasket. They will only cut them for your if you order 3 or more, but it turned out to be the only reasonable option for me.

 

I thought GE actually laser cut the gasket and not bore it. I could be wrong. Any decent machine shop should be able to figure out how to bore a head gasket.

 

Ive called GE twice and they have told me they do not modify headgaskets. I agree that Ive talked with people before that have had this done. I dont know if theyve recently stopped doing this or the person answering the phone just isnt aware that they do this type of work. I have called all my local machinists and its something they are either not interested in attempting from lack of prior experience or the one place that I found that will do it wants $200-250 to do it. I cant justify having $350 invested in a OEM headgasket.

Anyone else have any references or input on who can do this for me? TIA

-bill

 

Did you contact mazda3racer on here ?If he can help you he will

 

i was in the same boat...
stock bore is 85mm, mine is only 85.5... I contacted GE and they told me they wont do it.... I was like what the hell... its the same as other honda OEM gaskets... Heres my suggestion.
I personally used an F23 headgasket cause its for an 86mm bore. U should use the f23 gasket just cause the crush ring is out farther... Get an F23 headgasket and take it to a good local machine shop and they should have no problem elarging it to like 90mm for u. Goodluck... I talked to the people at darton about this and they told me their sleeves are designed for the cometic MLS gasket. I told them they dont make it for the f22 and darton was surprised...

 

I am sure they modify OEM gaskets, but I bet they could only do it up to a certain bore size. The stock HG for B-series for example could no way be bored up to 85mm without destroying the sealing rings.