</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by elripster:
<strong>Do we have reason to believe that the headgaskets are weaker than normal after repair? I ask because I have 270,000 miles on mine and it runs like a top. It did get the gaskets swapped under the recall.
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Yeah, but its apples to oranges. You are claiming reliability after the HG upgrade repair for a NA engine. Fair claim. He is considering blowing it. If the NA stock design makes great demands on the headgasket, but a decent headgasket's failure mode just exceeds the demands, will the 3.0 not make demands exceeding the failure threshold if blown?

Good money after bad in that case, you'd have a good blower and a toasted engine and have spent as much as an ever-more-painless 3.4 swap. Just doesn't make sense.