Head Gasket query

Drillergy · Post by **Drillergy** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:55 am

So I managed to find a reputable company to work on my Sx now they gonna be doing my head gasket and turbo all I have to do is supply the headgasket. So I called around and managed to get a Payen for a good price. What I wanna know is, is it fine to fit a CA18DE payen gasket to the CA18DET? Pls Lemme know urgently as I need to get everything sorted today. Thanks

hentiebez · Post by **hentiebez** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:58 am

i would say the best would be to find a cometic (steel) one

Charlvdw · Post by **Charlvdw** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:00 am

Im running a payen de gasket and so far so good. The gasket looks the part 2.

Drillergy · Post by **Drillergy** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:22 am

Ideally Cometic is the way to go, but the last time I bought a cometic hg for a 3sgte motor, it was around R1600 and that was from someone with an incomplete project. I'm getting the Payen for R350 from Midas which is a good deal.

hentiebez · Post by **hentiebez** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:28 am

its beter than the R1800.00 for a sr20det one and you can only get them from nissan. the cometic for the sr20det is only R1200.00 and that was with the rand at 10.30

Drillergy · Post by **Drillergy** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:32 am

Any contacts for Cometic? Might as well check it out.

hentiebez · Post by **hentiebez** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:35 am

you can find out from ian@rezlo thats where i got the price for mine. go check him on the rezlo.com in the forum section. do you stay in no 309

Charlvdw · Post by **Charlvdw** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:37 am

Drillergy wrote:Any contacts for Cometic? Might as well check it out.

R1600 For 1.2mm
R1900 For 1.9mm

Pinkfluffybunnys · Post by **Pinkfluffybunnys** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:44 pm

what head bolts you using?

Drillergy · Post by **Drillergy** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:00 pm

Everything is stock on my car. Nothings been done to it.

Pinkfluffybunnys · Post by **Pinkfluffybunnys** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:05 pm

Stock payne gasket ARP bolts.

The stock bolts don’t hold torque well an with a cometic it will get even worse

thekoukimonster · Post by **thekoukimonster** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:58 pm

If anyone is interested, i have a used cometic for sr20det, it was only used once and a maximum of 100km!!.(before i blew the sr up due to big turbo on std map)

It can be used up to 5 times.

R650

mario_200sx · Post by **mario_200sx** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:56 am

I got OEM SR20DET VTC head gasket for R800, brand new.

BrentCrude · Post by **BrentCrude** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:03 am

ebay?

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:58 pm

www.frsport.com $89 for a cometic ca18det headgasket.