long story short i bent valves on my base rsx....i got a head from a ep3 but i bought a base rsx headgasket....now when i start the car oil leaks from just above the oil pressure sensor. Should i have bought the headgasket from the ep3?

 

nobody can help lol???/

 

Well what is directly above the oil pressure sender? If it was a head gasket you would probably be experiencing a little more symptoms than a little oil leaking out. You would probably have a loss of compression for that cylinder and it would be leaking out coolant.

 

Well, I don't know anything about the ep3...

That said, when I had my head off of my K20A2, NAPA only sold a headgasket for the base model RSX. They are apparently the same head gasket, so I used that one and haven't had any problems. Not sure if that helps you any. Probably not.

 

don't believe it's a fitment issue...

 

clean the oil off completly, then run it to see exactly where its coming from...did you apply hondabond where you were suppose to?

 

no i didnt apply any hondabond never really heard about that but will will look into this!

 

gasket was backward!

 

is that even possible? didnt think it was symetrical... I am guessing it would have been obvious.

 

I've looked on both the Autozone and Rock-Auto websites and both list the same head gaskets for the EP3 and the base DC5. Rock-auto did list another gasket "HG218" for the base and Type-S.