SR20 Reliability Build Questions

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Originally Posted by blkvrtswp

My 2 cents: If you want 'reliability' skip the head work completely. OEM gasket, cams and head bolts handle 300+ WHP all the time. The loss in reliability will not be worth the small cam power gains at under 300 HP levels.

Originally the only head work i was thinking of doing was the tomei poncams, are these really that detrimental with the proper tune?