magg wrote:Power Sports Plus in usa have valve stem seals for $6.00 ea and head gaskets for $26.00 ea, I am waiting for confirmation of availability. Postage varies with price would be about $20.00 for purchase up to $60.00, worth considering.

Can you drop me a PM if they get back to you please mate? Im going to be buying some stem seals and head gaskets at the end of this month and thats quite a saving!

magg wrote:Power Sports Plus in usa have valve stem seals for $6.00 ea and head gaskets for $26.00 ea, I am waiting for confirmation of availability. Postage varies with price would be about $20.00 for purchase up to $60.00, worth considering.

Copies I take it? Theres no shortage in getting copy stem seals and head-gaskets for the 30 but with how reliable some of the copy head-gaskets have proved to be I would put those in for the sake of how much work it will be to replace them when the fail.

Their website response was to genuine Honda P/N, so expect same to be supplied. Will be checking once they reply to my inquiry.

$26 for ahead gasket? They're £34.20 in the UK. If that's genuine and the shipping isn't expensive, I could see them sending a few this way as that works out at less than half the price! If they're pattern, a certain expression about a barge pole comes to mind.

Edit: just looked it up on their site. It's genuine. Price discounted from $40.09 (£25) to $26.46.
Inlet valve stem seals $4.73
Exhaust stem steals $6.35

Even with shipping and VAT when the bits land in the UK, you'd be saving some money....

Im still wondering if they are genuine or not, I know the website has a fancy little picture and all but it doesnt say genuine part on the listing.

DSS sell OEM patterns too for abour 4 quid each.

Quite frankly, if they're selling pattern parts by using the Honda genuine parts logo to advertise them, then they'd be breaking the law?

Hope they do turn out to be genuine, cant say im interested if they arent as Rick oliver is selling Versah gaskets and seals which i would bet are higher quality than anything else with the exception of OEM stuff.

ive just ordered a full versah gasket kit off Rick for a pending engine rebuild, about £160 ish. Will repot back on any issues with it, hopefully there won't be any

Drunkn Munky wrote:ive just ordered a full versah gasket kit off Rick for a pending engine rebuild, about £160 ish. Will repot back on any issues with it, hopefully there won't be any

I was going to get the same kit off him for mine, but i only need head gaskets and stem seals so it works out roughly the same price to just go genuine and loose out on the extra gaskets.

I've bought plenty of parts from powersportsplus. I have found them to be the cheapest supplier for OEM parts, and they are reliable.

If you order from the OEM parts section, that's what you get - genuine OEM parts. They don't stock all parts, but backorder them and bring them in fairly quickly. If the part comes up on the OEM listing, they will get it, even if it takes a few weeks. I've never spoken to, or emailed them, I order everything through their on-line system and it works.

I doubt they would have any pattern parts for the VFR400 as they are an American company and they wouldn't know what a VFR400 is.