I bought a gasket kit from DNJ, it clearly says it's compatible with my car which is a 2000 accord lx 2.3l vtech f23a1 manual trans. Most of the gaskets are fine, except the intake manifold plenum gasket, its not fine, as well as a few that I can't find a home for. The attached pic is the kit- check out the intake manifold plenum gasket in the upper right hand corner. Exactly what is it supposed to seal? It has 4 rings to sit on top of the 4 air channels to the head, but those don't touch anything inside so what are they supposed to seal? On top of that, the tabs with the bolt holes would actually do more to prevent the plenum from sealing than help. Am I understanding it wrong or is it as worthless as it looks?


The other mystery gasket is the three oddly shaped rubber strips to the right of the EGR gasket and under the exhaust gasket, the ones shaped like an L, ones like a lazy bigger L and the U shaped one that doubles back on itself. I thought maybe it might be for the plastic piece that sits under the cam pully, and 2 of them are sorta similar, but not close enough to be right. Anyone recognize them?

 

First guess would be those L shaped ones etc are likely from the timing cover.

What could be handy is maybe looking up the same kit from other brands like felpro where they itemise the contents and comparing.

 

You're going to have extra gaskets you don't use that are for another engine. Use the gasket that matches the old one.

 

I tried this, felpro doesn't have any of these in their kits.
What would have been nice would be a 'this kit includes' paper like when you buy a tv stand and it tells you what supposed to be in the box. This didn't come with anything at all, no papers included.

 

Unfortunately they didn't include the gasket that fits mine. I guess I'm just recycling my old one, it's not all that bad condition wise.

 

that plenum gasket is for the older F22B1/2 ('94-97) as is manifold gasket that doesn't match what you have on your F23.

 

Right on, thx man!