The filter had to be submerged to have that much water in the motor. Sounds like he was taking the thing fishing.


Yager-

 

man i drove through lots of deep water and never had an issue... of course, i let off the gas as i was going through the water... then waited a bit before getting back on it.

 

Update...


The insurance said "hell no" and the customer is having a fit. He thinks it should be factory warranty since it only has 3K miles on the engine and it wasn't "that much water anyway". His logic is so sad it's funny. It will be another couple weeks before anything is resolved...

 

hay what are you doing with the motor i am doing a pro fwd with that motor, you can i-m me if you would like to sell thanks

 

If he wanted the insurance company to pay for it he should have taken the cold air off and put the factory intake back on, and said it happened with the factory intake with no mention of an aftermarket intake. This dude was dumb enough to drive through water deep enough to submerge the filter he deseveres to pay for another engine himself. Because that is the only way he would hydro lock the car is to drive it through water deep enough to submerge the intake.

 

We squirted a garden hose directly into my buddy's d15 while he revved it, and we couldn't get it to hydrolock. There was an actual puddle under the exhaust when we were done, and no damage occured.

He must have tried to pull his boat trailer out of a lake...in reverse.

 

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Update....

The insurance company declined the claim and Honda sure-as-hell is not going to pick the bill up. The customer gave us the okay today (actually, his daddy gave us the okay...I'm sure it's daddy's credit card paying the $9K, too).

 

Ouch, that hurts.

 

That is why you leave your car alone!

I've spent about 8gand in a car in the past in all sorts of mods.
Now that I have S2000, I am keeping it compeletly stock.
Engineers at Honda @ Tochigi spent millions of dollars to come up with factory design and components of S2000.

Why would you want to ruine it?

 

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Thats great, I wish i had a daddy to do that for me

 

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and me!

 

man i feel bad for this guy

 

angrytroll, are you a tech or service writer for honda?

 

I have absolutly no sympathy for people like that. If you see a big friggan puddle on the road don't you think to yourself hey I should avoid that? Anyway I'm glad his daddy is helping him out...cause if that was me, I'd have a very nice F20C sitting in my living room as a table and the car suspensded from the garage since it'd take years for me to come up with another 9k for a new motor
Mike

 

93 VTEC is right about the price of a new short block. You can add $1,500 parts and labor for a good race machine shop to put in the new rod and (I assume) piston, rings, bearings and to rework the head (seals, springs) for good measure. Then you need about $500 for the R&R on the assumption that the wiring harness has not been hacked and there's no transmission or differential assembly work to be done. You ought to be able to get this done for $4-5,000.

I just did my third motor in my S2000 track car and it ran $500 for the R&R, $700 for parts (rings, crank bearings, rod bearings, oil-jet bolts, one exhaust valve, springs, seals, timing chain, oil pump chain, belts and hoses) and $1,100 for the machine shop including a line hone, flywheel work and all the head work.

 

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Tech.