sweet thanks for the help, Mike... you always manage to come through... the head has stock cam gears so i think i'll be upgrading them. i jsut wanted to make sure the tooth count wasnt any different so i got the right ones.

i kinda have a feeling my compression is high enough between the ITR pistons and the PR3 head so ill stick with honda-spec head gasket.

i dont have a header yet, since my engine is stock, ive been using the oem exhaust manifold. do the ITR and the b16a1 have the same bolt pattern or do i need to go with a b16 header?

on a side note, the head came with a hondata heat sheild intake manifold gasket :naughty: