So I got most of my parts for my rebuild. Wisco Pistons, rings, eagle rods, arp headstuds, acl bearings,, etc. But would like to know which brand (OEM, or not)headgasket to get. Or if anyone recommends a blockgaurd and which one.
This is all on an LS

 

Golden Eagle offers head gaskets from 81mm to 85mm. Let me know if you need one.

 

I am looking for people with experience with a certain kind of HG, like cometic for instance.

Ben, thanks for shipping so quick.

 

I have gone stock gasket with copper spray.

I am building an ls turbo and i plan to stick with it.

 

You're welcome!

 

oem

 

any reason not to go with cometic or a block gaurd?

 

cometic is pretty good, i've never used a bg so i can't recommend any, you haven't thought about doing a resleeve job?

 

Is the setup going to be full LS or LS Vtech? If LS vtech I would use the cometic gasket that is designed just for that. i have one in stock at an 81.5 mm if you need it. Let me know

 

the OEM head gasket is cometic isnt it?? anyway, the OEM gasket will work just fine. As for the block guard, don't use it unless you install it right. you cant just pound them in like most people do, it needs to be lower on the sleeve, and welded in. One alternative to a BG is block posting. Here is a link to help you out.

http://www.homemadeturbo.com/t....html

 

Remember some quality head studs to keep the head in place.

 

got arp headstuds already. anymore opinions

 

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Yup, listen to him

 

the setup is full LS, not ls-"VTECH" lol

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by j-robsDA &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So I got most of my parts for my rebuild. Wisco Pistons, rings, eagle rods, arp headstuds, acl bearings,, etc. But would like to know which brand (OEM, or not)headgasket to get. Or if anyone recommends a blockgaurd and which one.
This is all on an LS</TD></TR></TABLE>

According to Stan at inlinepro, Nothing beats an OEM part. He has used OEM head gasket's and head studs up to 600+whp before. OEM would be the way to go, thats whats being use on my Built LS also

 

so here is a question. I am going to bore my block .5mil over for my 81.5m pistons. I have heard a stock HG will work fine with that bore. Am I right?


Modified by j-robsDA at 10:18 AM 11/21/2004

 

i have heard countless times that stock hg is fine at 81.5, i think some cars came from honda with that slight overbore, even.

 

bump, someone help