Layzboy713

I'm currently rebuilding my bottom end on my 94 Integra GSR due to a bent rod. After lots of reading I've chose to go with a Wiseco 9.9:1 piston and Manley H Beams. While researching parts for my bottom end build I realized my bent rod also broke one of my oil Squirters. My question is should I plug them or replace them? I also read an article that people with Wiseco pistons were experiencing clearances issues with the Squirters.
Any direction would help....are they needed? If so, will I have clearance issues

Muckman

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This is one of those questions that its more of a preference thing. Lots of people like to run them as it cant hurt to keep the extra cooling while many plug them to gain some extra oil pressure as most engines don't have them anyways. The clearance issue is minor and can be resolved by very slightly bending them out of the way of the skirt if needed at all.

SiRCiviC94

Personally I'd rather have them. But there is many ls VTec set ups that have nothing there

m4xwellmurd3r

Oil squirters are to cool cast pistons to keep them from growing too much. Forged pistons dont expand like cast pistons do so oil squirters arent needed

IN VTEC

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I have Wiseco pistons and elected to cap them with GE's plugs. I seem to recall that a lot of bending was required to clear the bottom of the pin boss. Going to the side or down didn't look like an minor tweak.

I didn't want to weaken it by cold working and also worry about collapsing the squirter tube if I hot worked it. Not to mention the pain in the *** it would have been for minimal gain.

The skirt edge could eventually be an issue, but I never got that far.

Turbo-LS

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Additional cooling an dlubrication on the wrist pin is a good thing. Try to keep them if you can. I run squirters in my gsr block with LS Crower rods and arias pistons.

Schister66

This is what i've heard and followed since forever.

Is anyone worried about the potential for oil pressure drop due to the squirters? Just curious

m4xwellmurd3r

I dont know what the pressure drop would be like woth squirters, but my na ls, with .0018 mains and .0015 rods, 5w-30 full synthetic, pushes 75psi@3000rpm at 200-220f oil temps. By around 2k-2.5k its at 60psi, and idle is 20psi.

I always thought my pressure was about 5-10psi lower but I recently had to unhook my temp sensor and I guess because of how it was hooked up it was making my pressure read lower

met

I was going to say this earlier but muchman mans post sums it up if it makes you happy run them. However a technical note about the oil pumps pressure relief valve, if you were to open up the oil system to the point where you never hit it then it would be a problem. I have noticed with hondas with and without the oil squirters hit the same oil pressures, its where it maxes the oil pressure at that changes not over all pressure. Unlike a oil cooler where your bypassing the oil and you have a net drop in oil pressure. This is in reference to the whole system, I am not discounting that where they squirters pull oil from close to the mains that there will be a possible slight drop in oil there; however our oil pumps are made to flow enough to make up for that.

Dark_Teg

Got a brand new In the box set of Manley H-beams I would sell for a good price.