How weak are stock sleeves...Look inside
12-08-2002, 02:58 PM
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Re: How weak are stock sleeves...Look inside (earl)
i have had great experiences with stock b18c sleeves. inline has put incredible amounts of horsepower through stock sleeves with great success. tuning is the key. to me, the picture earl put up clearly shows what results from poor tuning, not necessarily the sleeves themselves. IMO. 
What startles me is that it is so easy to do this WITHOUT a turbo.
What startles me is that it is so easy to do this WITHOUT a turbo.
anything will break without the proper maintenance (in this case tuning). Washer's, dryer's, lawnmowers, and especially cars.
12-08-2002, 03:49 PM
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Re: How weak are stock sleeves...Look inside (earl)
Wow earl.. you know what the funny thing is. That's EXACTLY what my block looks like. LOL Only difference is the #3 sleeve busted on the opposite side. It's weird because the chunk/break missing is exactly the same shape as mine, and the water jacket got pushed out the exact same way as mine. Also, I can't tell from the pictures, but one crack goes almost all the way down the cylinder.
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12-08-2002, 04:40 PM
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Re: How weak are stock sleeves...Look inside (SlowTeg)
So are we concluding that 160 whp with bad tuning is harder on a stock Honda block than 500 whp with good tuning? Doesn't seem right to me but not sure why 
12-08-2002, 09:22 PM
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Re: How weak are stock sleeves...Look inside (earl)
So are we concluding that 160 whp with bad tuning is harder on a stock Honda block than 500 whp with good tuning? Doesn't seem right to me but not sure why
i've been scratching my head all day reguarding your post. i'm always slow on sundays you know. haha. but as far as i'm concerned, detonation is detonation, no matter what the horsepower.
12-08-2002, 09:51 PM
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Re: How weak are stock sleeves...Look inside (earl)
It's not what you hear, it's what you don't hear about.
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