[NICE 69 S]

FWIW, my son had an Accord, and a hose broke and the gasket blew. Tried to fix it myself, but after an hour looking at it, took it to a local shop. I could see no way to get the intake manifold off, but the guy at the shop removed the head with the manifold on. One month later, a different hose broke, and the new gasket blew. After negotiations, shop said they would do the job for half price (THEY SHOULD HAVE REPLACED THE CRAPPY HOSE).
Anyway, after they got the head off, I had them push the car into the parking lot. I went to Sears and bought a 6in grinding wheel and removed the labels from both sides. I plugged up the hole on the top of the block where the oil comes up into the head, put rags in all the cylinders to keep the grit from falling down to the pistons, and ran that grinding wheel (laid over on it's side) over the top of the block by hand. There were so many high spots, it just blew me away. Took me two days of sliding that grinding wheel over the top of that damn block to get to the point where I thought the gasket would have some integrity.
Moral of the story here is that if the head is warped, then the top of the block is probably warped too. If I had to do this again, I would epoxy some sort of flexible shaft into the hole in the grinding wheel so I could use my drill motor to circulate the grinding wheel while I was moving it from side to side. (Don't forget to unplug the oil hole after you get everything cleaned up).
Bob B