http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...19983

Is there any reason to be wary of this sort of thing?

 

Hmm, wish I could help. I've never purchased anything like that off eBay. Hopefully someone can help you out.

 

I dont think it'd be any worse than like an advance auto brand part..
You never know though..

 

man pay the extra couple of bucks and get a OEM one you will be happy you did

 

I would not trust buying something like this made by a company I did not know.

 

Couple extra bucks for OEM? More like "over twice the price."

I'd get Fel-Pro or something before OEM.

 

Well then you're dumb.. There is nothing better than oem when it comes to **** like this. Hey if you want to blow another head gasket be my guest. And if you're too cheap to pay then get out of Honda's now because you got a long road ahead of you.

 

cometic all the way

 

My personal rule?

The more important and the more complicated to get to the part is, the more important it is to use high-quality parts. So I use the cheapo wiper blades, but a head gasket? It doesn't get much more important.

OEM or Felpro for me, leaning towards OEM. Cometic looks decent, but I have no personal experience with them, so can't form an opinion one way or another.

 

I've blown both OEM and fel-pro gaskets, I really couldn't give you an acurate statistics though. The engine with the fel-pro gasket already had the gasket put in when i got it, I got 6000kms out of it before it blew again, but i have no idea how long it was in there before i got it. OEM is usually the way to go for this kind of stuff though.

 

Im runing cometic on mine only because I got over sized pistons otherwise OEM FTW!!

 

think of it this way. the cheaper a part is, the lower the qualities of materials, less attention to smaller details in the manufacturing process, and alot larger of tolarences then with a higher quality part.

if you buy the cheap one, i bet you that you will end up with a warped head sooner or later.