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I have recently blew my head gasket on my car. Took the cylinder head off. Took it to a machine shop and he said it was worped and he could not fix it. I have call around town(tulsa ok) and can not find one. Fiund a machine shop that says they might be able to "unworp" it. By bolting to a piece of metal and heating it up and pushing back down to flat. Or another idea is, is their a different cylinder head that I can use on my block? I believe my engine is a d16z6. This is my first honda. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.

 
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"Unworp" LOL. The process is generally known as "straightening", and is pretty much as you described.

Straightening a warped head is an industry accepted practice, and is actually better and safer than milling/machining a warped head. It would be straightened as much as possible, then might only need a "light shave" to bring the gasket surface back to perfectly flat and still be well within minimum head height specs..


I can't offer any info about a swap.

 
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Thank you. That information help out a lot. This is what I am most likely going to do since everything that I have read says this head is a good one.