NirVTEC

93 H22A1-114k miles-----Detonation due to nitrous, blew a hole between sleeves.
^^The format I'd like to see^^

Spun Bearing?
Broken Rod?
Cracked Ring Lands?
Broken wrist pin?
Broken Crank?






93-96=H22A1
97=50mm H22A4
98-01=55mm H22A4

Not trying to leave the Euro/Asian crowd out, I am just interested in USDM motors.

NirVTEC

Wow the Prelude forum sucks these days.....

P. Hunter

mine has yet to blow..it was about 160k on it.. my other motor "blew" at the track but it still runs. it just missfires really really bad.. if i can get the damn crank bolt off i could get the head off and start to look in to it more.. as of right now my rear main is leaking so that will be fixed soon.

snobordboy

Yeah, my H23 spun a bearing then snapped the crank at 181K, and the jdm H22A I swapped in was going strong when I pulled it for the H23VTEC I built. Without knowledge of that h22A, I added 29K miles on it, and last time I checked compression, it was all very even.

balliso911

mine not dead yet on a 93 h22a1, it has 264xxx.

bdmlilburn

94 h22a1 224xxx miles running strong

crazes

93 h22a1 120k miles- pistons rings let go

was at the track giving it all she can made a good pass at 14.05 not really pushing it hard. went down the track again and poof there she went. when I finally got the head off the ringlands were cracked on 3 of the 4 pistons and number 3 cylinder was all scratched up completely. thats what happens when you try to push oem piston rings oh well. I learned and went bigger.

Well for me I dont post so much in the prelude forum because I havent been able to hit the track. I would post if something has changed. Also what I notice is that alot of us are facebook and any remarks we place them in there.

Hidenplanvew

free helms at spoonertuner.com ... My clutch let go last month at 120K miles and valve seals have been gone

mherkamp

^^???
4th gen H23 125K running e85 Neptune'd stock internals still going strong (yeah I know its not an h22). And with regard to the forum, I try to post up tech whenever I do something. Just got done with the Progress rear sway bar install last night, took some pics so I'll post that up in the next couple days(home-made custom end-links FTW).

Contender_h22a

H22a1 at 168,xxx miles
3 Broken rods, piston in cylinder 2 ended up in the oil pan.

h23a1 at 200K+ miles
timing belt snapped, valve bent, and cylinder #1 wall cracked.

NirVTEC

Dude, you and Roger have officially made my trip to hater-tech worthwhile today.
Thx.
I have witnessed simply too much in my 13yrs in the car business to comment. :ziplip: although usually NOT on purpose. Still.......



Thanks though guys. This is the kind of info I wanted to see. Happy to see some people post their current miles too.

slammedbbs

164k on stock block and head just changed out the stock rotor cap and rotor today car still does not smoke knock on wood. when it does pop iam going to buy a h22a from hmo.

q16racer

im glad you guys miss the days when this was my section

Rosko

iTrader: (1)

97 lude SH 190k

The motor was out when I got it but it was obviously cylinder wear/rings. Bearings looked good for that many miles haha.

1GPlusSH

97 SH-124k miles-----Detonation due to nitrous...yes, i was an idiot

Don Jefe

97 SH 152k, spun bearing due to oil starvation

*inherits stupid crown*

fwiw, motor's been rebuilt and has been running strong for over 8k, just a few loose ends to tie up

nikosoopy

i recently purchase a 1997 prelude SH, second or maybe the third owner drive it for less than two months and spun the rod. the miles on the odo reads 211k, now in search for a replacement motor. thinking about k24 but i was just too much work, so not i am going for a h22a type S motor.

gstrudler

97 SH - 160k-ish miles; blew headgasket at 140k and eventually burnt up an exhaust valve at 160k

My own fault; I installed an electric water pump and didn't drill a hole in the t-stat like I was supposed to. Didn't believe my temp gauge when it was pegged at the top while on the freeway until the car shut down. Oops. Installed a new dizzy and it ran for another 20k before burning up the exhaust valve. Swapped a new head on and I'm still on the road (for now).

Speaking of stealerships, I swear the local Subaru dealership messed up my wife's WRX. Took them an Exedy clutch to install along with a t-belt change; they left the MAF sensor unplugged, the clutch felt like crap (and I'm convinced the clutch play is still set incorrectly) and the A/C stopped working after being at their shop when it worked flawlessly previously.

NirVTEC

You mean when people were trying to Mod their cars, not just barely keep them running?!?! haha.
Pirate said it best! I am actually sigging that!

NirVTEC

Alot of old bastards scared the kids out of here in the last several years. Well, 1% of those kids grew up into intelligent adults, thus the pretty cool builds over there. They whine about PP.com on other sites though!

THC07

98 h22a4 55 shot dry from 120,000 blew gasket at 188,000 miles. this was in 2004

Blown a few H series since then, but thats all on me. sometimes its hard for me to be responsible with n2o. I could never get more than 8k miles on any stock internal build. all of which were non DD and the shot was 110.

q16racer

yep. exactly. I didnt let half the **** that flies in here go down, but then again i will say that there were a few more interesting threads back then.

but i could really careless anymore. HT got what it wanted from me.

GoldLudeRay

h22a1 with 170k spraying a 75shot.....number one piston i belive detonated badly and swisted rod/destroyed valves and the cyclinder walls..all other cyclinders showded detonation signs and horrid carbon build up...it was a missed shift from 3rd at redline down too 2nd instead of up too 4th on the shot...the tranny was never the same after that lol

NirVTEC

Ohhhh how I can relate. I blew my 1st engine on my 2nd bottle @ 80shot. My current JDM H22 has survived 2 seasons of a 60-100 shot(100lbs of 100shot) over 100 dyno pulls(8500rpm pulls), 2000 miles of 8k rpm+ roadRacing. Yah, needless to say, I am SUPER impressed with my current engine.....Dyno'd after all the above, still makes awesome power and uses very little oil.
Oops........

gheezy

97 h22a4 blew at 138000 due to buying the car with it's timing off, which eventually went pow. decided to go with f20b after about a year of downtime, to try and change that luck with my first h22a4, so far so good