Got a 99 beetle with the 2.0 sohc 8v engine. Leaking headgasket so were going to be doing a quick single day changover by dropping the head from our wrecked 98 beetles engine onto this one.

Felpro lists a MLS permatorque headgasket. The oem headgasket looks like it was a mls gasket also.

Is the felpro HG safe to use or do I need to be prepared to get my wallet raped at the dealer for an oem hg ? I only ask because of felpro's less than steller track record with our engines and since this VW engine looks strikingly similar in design to our 2.2/2.5 I am left wondering if the same problems will result.

Thanks.