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My brother's 2005 Honda Civic-Ex over heated a few months ago and when we checked, it had a blown head gasket and already warped head. We were presuming the overheating caused this. So we brought to a local auto shop and were quoted $2200 - too costly for me. Do you think I should just get a rebuilt engine or is it worth to have this fixed and spend $$$? It's really a pain...
Happened to my Audi last year, the water pump broke and it over heated.

I ripped out the head and had it resurfaced.
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