Honestly, giving up on this does make me feel as though i've failed miserably with this build. But at some point reason needs to take over and move me forward. Im not giving up on the motor itself, but I need to take a break from dumping loads of cash into this, ive literally dumped thousands into this car aimlessly since 2009.

 

Can you aimlessly send some my way lol? I need to finish my car too :p

 

lol its being sent aimlessly back to my savings account :x

 

But my love you long time, 10 dorrah

 

my soul is not for sale miss

 

Damn

 

So are you going the same route as me? Hi comp B20 non vtec?

 

already was a high comp b20 non vtec, it just had a blower on it already lol

 

I know what you're saying. Sometimes it does get frustrating and sickly when you've spent hours trying to get it right and something ***** up. It just kills me even more to know I've quit after getting so close though.

Good luck with plan b anyway. I hope it works out for you this time around.

 

I'm a little proud of this, these are my 402T cams with rotella T6 motor oil as the lubricant of choice after 1000 miles of non stop drag racing.

 

back onto the stand for brain surgery

 

Those cams look better than new lol

 

im curious to see what my bearings look like now lol

 

talk about f'ed in the a, all this time i was expecting to see issues with rings, and i pop out #1 (bearings looked brand new btw, thank god for something at least) and find ****** horrific skirt wear on the intake side. As far as I can tell something is wrong with the bore, must be out of round or something. Only thing I can assume is that this happened at the machine shop, i have uneven skirt wear across all 4 cylinders, #4 which appears to have barely anything, and barely anything on the exhaust side. Only a very fine line on the lower part of the cylinder.

 

Unless the rods were slightly bent ?

 

crower H beams? you really think they could be bent?

 

 

Is it just the two pistons? The one doesnt look bad at all. At worse maybe replace the bad piston. I dont know if you could reuse if you moly coated the skirts, or if it would even be cost effective vs buying a single piston.

 

#1 is the worst, and its proggressive all the way to #4 which has basically no wear, dont know why

 

I havent read all this thread but i am curious, How much PTW clearance?

 

.0040

 

Definitely shouldn't have that issue at .004

Unless the machine shop fucked it up and the bore tapers, out of round, etc... unless you had uneven fuel delivery causing super high egts, causing the pistons to over expand

 

its all kinda contradictory to what im seeing, if that was the case, it would be hottest on #3 would it not? as #1 which is the worst is right in front of the water pump?

 

What was your pin to small end clearance?

 

not an issue here