what kind of honing tools do you guys use? im keeping my stock sleeve gsr block at 81mm cause im cheap. at my old job, we had the dingleberry ***** on a stick hone. i bought a 3 stone hone tool from autozone just the other day. i havent used the 3 stone yet, but i was wondering what everyone else uses and where i can get a dingleberry hone. thanks

 

honda does not reccomend using the dingleball hone as it can out of round the cylinders very easily......

also the 3 stone you got from autozone is probably to coarse...what grit are the stones? almost all those hones are not fine enough to do a finish hone....

 

what do you suggest?

 

i think he suggests either to leave it alone or take it to a machine shop

 

i would send it to a machine shop. like they said the dingle ***** get the cylinders out of round very easily and there is no real way to get the correct cross hatch. i would send it to erl. they hone it for around $100-150 and get with 0-.0002 of your piston diameter.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sleeper-ek &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i would send it to a machine shop. like they said the dingle ***** get the cylinders out of round very easily and there is no real way to get the correct cross hatch. i would send it to erl. they hone it for around $100-150 and get with 0-.0002 of your piston diameter.</TD></TR></TABLE>

ive never had a problem with any motor ive assembled using the dingle berry hone to clean up the cylinders. even the erl blocks that we got (which 2 had cooling problems and 1 had a deck plate leak like a civ) were used and then rebuilt. i used the dingle ball hone on those, and they came out fine.

 

you can change gthe stones out for finer ones too....

 

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ive never had a problem with any motor ive assembled using the dingle berry hone to clean up the cylinders. even the erl blocks that we got (which 2 had cooling problems and 1 had a deck plate leak like a civ) were used and then rebuilt. i used the dingle ball hone on those, and they came out fine. </TD></TR></TABLE>

sorry to hear about your bad experience with erl, how long ago did you have that problem because i know they have had a lot of research and development to try and prevent those things from happening. nothing wrong against the dingle berry method i'm just saying i guarentee a motor that is straight up and down with .0002 tolerance will run a little better then one that is honed with an electric drill and a flimsy rod.

 

ah it was about a year ago, one was a b16, one an h22, and the deckplated engine was a gsr. im sure theyve gotten their stuff better since, but from my personal experience, i wouldnt use their stuff.