well this is just a question that im unsure of, so if people wanna give me ****, go away. im soon to be turboed and im using hondata engine managment. i don think anything will happened since i using good parts and getting tuned but there is always the chancce of the engine blowing. i know the forst thing to go are usually the ringlands and what dumb guy will only change the pistons, ide change the rods too. what i was saying is could u do a rebuild with the engine in the car? like take off the head, then takee off oil pan, pickup, main caps. etc. and put in your pistons and rods like that??? would it work??? any1 ever done it?? thanks

 

It may work but will be a bitch and a half.

 

It may work, but are you going to hone it while the block is in the car?
It`s not that hard to get the entire engine out..

 

Every time I've blown an engine it's needed a bore/hone. With stock sleeves my cylinders were a little out of round from the pressure generated by the detonation that knocked off the ring lands. Even on my Darton-sleeved motor, breaking rings/lands left some sharp edges on the pistons that scored the cylinder walls, so it had to be bored out. I guess theoretically if your cylinders are not distorted or scratched (not likely if you blow your motor and break your pistons) and you can work a ball hone correctly (also not likely if you've never done it before), plus get all the abrasive residue out of the block and off of the crank, then it could be done, but I wouldn't try it.

 

i know to hone it i can put it on a drill.but ofcourse if it needs to be bored thats a different story. yea i dont see how it would be extremely difficult to remove the engine htough. i did my own clutch install. looks liek it i unbolted 1 more motor mount i could have just pulled the whole thing out

 

this is my thoughts on it, if you are spending all that money, get the bores honed with a power hone oversized. to make sure they are square. i mean round. i mean, you know what i mean. why do all that stuff with new pistons in an old resurfaced bore? doin it once right = doin it twice cheaply.

 

good thought. i just am gunna start to save
buy a **** broken block, get it re sleeved and so forth