Well, as some of you may know, recently I bought a new motor for my girlfriends honda accord. Right now I am debating whether I should keep it or return it. I just did a compression test on her old motor which is still in the car, and the motor gave a 190 all the way across. The reason why I bought the new motor is because the old one is leaking somewhere from the timing area and it runs like crap and idles wierd when its on a cold start warming up. I thought it had a bent valve or something because of the way it ran but I think the timing is off a bit and thats prolly why. As for the leak, I will probably have to do a timing job and while I'm at it change what ever is leaking. For the new motor I was going to change to a new timing belt anyways so I figure why do the job on the new motor when I can do it on the old one and fix the seal while i'm at it. The speedo says the car has 172k but i believe the motor has been replace before because it has a heat tab glue'd on the head, from a engine/transmission company. What do you think guys? Keep the old one and save some money? Throw the new one in? AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?

 

it depends on how much the motor will cost you. If its only gonna be a couple hundred bucks, then do it. But, if your gonna be spending like a grand, just do an H22 swap and pick up some power while your at it right? Just my $.02

 

If I remember correctly the car is a 97 Accord LX with a F22B2 correct? Might want to make sure you post details such as this when making threads.

If you were going to do a timing belt job on the newer engine anyway, then you could save some money by returning the motor and just doing the work on the current motor.

Since you feel it's the timing thats making the car idle and run like "crap", then maybe verify this first before fully deciding.

And don't you have to change some things to make the newer engine compliant with OBD2? I believe thats what you were saying in your other thread.

Seems to me it may be cheaper and simpler to just spend the time/money working on the current engine rather than swapping in the newer engine that you know nothing about.