Wrong forum because my brother has a prelude and i have a civic, but he just re-did his engine(h23), like new pistons, port and polish, whole bunch of ****. Well it wasn't idleing right and we'd been driving it around the block for a couple of days to wear it in. Decided to leave the neighborhood, going up a hill, car dies. We pull off to the side of the road. It won't start, so we take off the valve cover, and the timing belt is broke and atleast 2 of the new valves are fuckt. So this sucks and don't know what to do now. Well, that's it. End of story.

 

that sucks

 

yeah, he's taking to a mechanic now. He gives up. It was running fine, then boom. We put it all back in too. Page by page. ****.

 

yeah, here's what he had done.

93 Si lude, resleeved by GE, gorilla sleeves, 88mm bore, wiseco 9.0:1 pistons, crower rods, portflow P&P head, AEM cai, Greddy exhaust

aight, well have a good night, atleast my car runs.

 

that sucks

 

sry man

 

did he buy a new timing belt when the valves were done?

 

...should've replaced the timing belt when the build was being done anyways!

 

SUCKS *** = correct.

sorry to hear man, thats rough.

 

damn makes me want to hurry up and get mine replaced . Its been sitting around my room and i've been too lazy to install it. My car already has 98k so it has to be done.

 

damn sorry to hear

 

Yeah, when the engine came back that gave him all new belts and gaskets and whatnot, we just don't know what happened

 

He said it "wasn't idling right." That makes me wonder if the cam timing was way off. Bad enough that when they went to higher speed, the valves hit the pistons. What rpm did you guys go to?

Seems unlikely a brand new timing belt would break. Was the tensioner in place and working?

 

we stayed under 3500. The more often we ran it, the closer it got to idling. Don't know what happened

 

ouch, sorry to hear that. good luck

 

yeah, thanks

 

happened to me with my car...but there was no way to tell when it was gonna go and I had never had the motor all apart to check it.

 

things like this make me wanna cry

 

what a burn....

 

proabably didn't set the valves right or have everything lined up properly.... ALWAYS DOUBLE AND TRIPLE CHECK.... here's an example of why

 

were you trying to get sympathy or advice?

 

post a new thread if you have some specific questions, thanks.