oem vs top line rebuilt kit?

[red91gst]

As I've posted before, we've sold and used Topline products in our motors for years and have never had a problem. The pistons are of equal quality to oem 2gs. For the price you will pay for brand new 2g pistons with rings, just go Ross or Wiseco. We've also used their oil pumps on all our race motors including my AWD car and the RWDer .

Nate
SBR

 

[v8s_are_slow]

how bout the front cover? i'm about to have to buy one. they seem to hold up pretty good as well?

 

[-red97rum-]

MOST of the gaskets in a top line kit, if you through them into a set of mitsu gaskets, you wont be able to tell the difference between the two. Thats most though, the head gasket is definitly not one of them !

I could definitely tell the difference between an oem front case gasket and the topline. Oem is just better quality NO doubt. But like you said the rest of them look fine and I plan on using them. In my case I went with the few oem seals/gaskets to rest my own mind.

 

[v8s_are_slow]

how bout the front cover itself? look that much different?