Swap questions?

[kc8enb07]

Im going to get a jdm engine for my civic soon. my question would it be overkill to replace the headgasket on a d15b?

only 38,000km so 20k miles.

[Losiracer2]

yeah, headgaskets are made out of metal, so they don't exactly wear out like the rubber gaskets can over time. Plus they're always under at least 80 ft-lbs of torque w/ the headbolts, at least that's why I torqued my ARP headstuds to when I redid my headgasket. So it should be good, esp. if it only has 20K miles.

Plus they aren't THAT cheap either, my Honda one from majestic cost me 75+shipping. So if you don't need to, don't do it. Unless you know there's a coolant loss from somewhere or you have bad compression across one cylinder, I wouldn't bother.