head rebuild, Best Headgasket

[grubby27777]

im in the middle of rebuilding my s14 sr and i was wondering what is the best headgasket for a near stock application, the head had some porting and there is a possibility of "light" cams, been leaning towards the all metal apexi, your thoughts are appreiciated

[homeslicej2]

Cosworth, much cheaper and really good. Better than that Cometic crap. Check out Hijacker's Cosworth HG thread here in the SR forum and the links to eric's blog he put up.

[Hijacker]

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Bam! Saved you the trouble of searching for it

I vote Cosworth was well. The gasket has held very well, and given all the data I received from Eric on it as well as some of the emails we had going on about the company and the products being put out, I have full confidence in Cosworth (not that I didn't before, they are one of the winningest names in racing history)

[grubby27777]

i was also lookin at them and because of there extensive experience in f1 i think that speaks for itself, now afew more head questions, i was looking into 1mm bigger valves, would this be compatibale with the stock valve spring and retainers and keepers or would i have to upgrade those too?? and then with the Headgasket, is the stock bore size 87mm, and what is stock thickness?? i would like to keep my stock compression ratio, unless anyone has any other opinions on that

[Hijacker]

stock cylinder bore is 86mm and the gasket thickness is 1.1mm

[grubby27777]

ya i searched and found your very helpful sr faq, do you have any opinion on my valve questions??

[grubby27777]

anybody