Head Gasket query

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Drillergy wrote:

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

R1600 For 1.2mm
R1900 For 1.9mm

what head bolts you using?

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

Stock payne gasket ARP bolts.

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

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

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

ebay?

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

Guys I went for the payen as I was in a hurry and wanted to get things sorted fast and the payen was there. I'll post a small article on everything. TVR is doing the work for me.