ColbyCD5

My 1st engine Build Got engine from tigerjapanese. terrible condition when i received it. guess i did not read the fine print

slowesteg

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whats wrong with it...?

mik101

x2...?

The last two I received from them were pretty clean (one had definitely been steam cleaned well). Rusty header, cut harnesses & hoses and sometimes broken accessories are usually par for the course unless its advertised otherwise.

You should always read the fine print.

kingofbattle909

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what they said. stop complainin, buy sensors and hoses. dont forget the qsd h2b!


*Im sorry for being a jerk- I didnt have my coffee.

f20b jones

i agree looks to be in pretty good shape. The last one i got had a new timing belt so i thought that was kinda weird considering it was supposed to have 30,000 miles. It was also oil stained pretty bad and were the front bracket mounted to the block one hole was cracked. I was a little scared to install it just didnt seem to be a good motor by looking at it. I dont use the front mount in a civic so that wasnt a problem and after changing the oil a couple times you could eat out of the inside now never seen oil stain go away but in this case it did. Also it ran 13.5 all day with a h tranny in a heavy si hatch so motor was and still is in great shape dont judge a book by its cover man im sure you will be happy with it and there great guys to work with .

Did you get a five speed or auto motor ? Big difference between the two about 20 hp. Five speed comes with type s cams and a 65mm throttle body auto dont . Odds are if you paid 800 its a auto . i had to pay 1,300 to get a five speed just some info to use .

ColbyCD5

I pulled the head off and got a great deal on some crower springs and retainers as well as skunk 2 intake manifold and arp head studs a friend was going to use to build his h22 head (the clean head is the h22 one)

ColbyCD5

I took the head off and took it to a local machine shop to get the head serviced and the valves as well. and block cleaned and painted

ColbyCD5

Auto but the other head had blox stage 1 camshafts it will be my daily driver

ColbyCD5

Few Miscellaneous aftermarket parts also put in crower springs and retainers and the f20b valves (serviced) back in

ColbyCD5

Blox stage 1 camshafts
Crower Springs and Retainers
Precision 440c injectors
Walbro 190lph fuel pump
Blox Fpr
Skunk 2 intake manifold
H23 Manual Tensioner Assembly
Phearable basemapped P28 Ecu
68mm Omni Power tb

More Mods and hopefully better quality pics soon

ColbyCD5

The distributor cap and button destroyed from looking at head it had it seems to have more miles than their company says. I ordered an obd1 dizzy ; also ordered the H series bolt kit, trans kit, and some spike nuts from http://downstarinc.com a week ago and they just arrived

ColbyCD5

Put my arps in with the moly lube. Torqued the head down and started on my cam caps also started to test fit the rest of my parts as well to see how it will hopefully look. Still waiting on my valve cover to be finished powder coated the color i selected is top secret.

ColbyCD5

also did some raping on cod as well so good week so FAR ))

ColbyCD5

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rexracer626

clean looking good im doing an f20b also! subscribed

CA121

can the f20b really be revved this high on stock bottom end? i'm limited at 8100 at the mo

kingofbattle909

iTrader: (6)

Looks good!
Keep us posted.

ColbyCD5

I only have my Max Rev set 7400 rpm, but im also daily driving it. Supposedly the f20b was put in the accord sir t. Hondas answer to Europes 4dr racing class.

ColbyCD5

friends dads Race Car

schia89

Hey nice build coming along. If the F20 crower retainers are anything like the H22 ones with the bigger/ wider retainer you'll have to grind the rockers down to have clearance between the bottom side of the rocker and retainer. If you don't then you most likely will run into the same Problems I had running a bigger cam. My cams locked up because I had the clearance issues, until I grinded the rockers down. If you want to know more just google it or pm me.

ColbyCD5

I think the blox stage 1 camshafts have the same profile as a type s cam. But now i know why there are small scratches and wear marks on side of retainers from previous use.

f20b jones

I reveed my f20b to over 9,000 grand for years . Next to the k series i can honestly say this is one of the best motors built by honda. It was desighned for a road race engine so it was desighned to hold high rpms for a long length of time .

Motor looks good man and ive got a couple motor that im sure had over 100,000 miles on them . Besides being carboned up they were still in great shape i wouldnt sweat it .

Also the stock f20b injectors are realy nice . I didnt max mine out till i hit 248hp so if you wanted to use the stock injectors and get some money back for your other ones they will be fine .

schia89

If that's the case you still have to grind them cause I'm running type s cams too. Just trying to let you know before you do something stupid like I did (sold my skunk2 cams, because I thought the crowers n skunk2 cams were incompatible). You can grind the bottom side of the rocker yourself if your comfortable with doing it.

ColbyCD5

uhh terrible news to hear but thanks for letting me know gotta disassemble the head again wait six weeks for another headgasket as well and order new ARPs

ColbyCD5

I really don trust crower products anymore my buddy had to grind the bottom of his rockers completely for his stage 3 crower camshafts in his 420a eclipse. Its just a poor design or inadequate testing on parts. Im looking at post of some crower valve trains dropping valves and now this wear deal, talk about not getting your moneys worth. Its only a month and a half till IA. Is there any way to pull out the retainers with out pulling the head off the block? If i do Its another 400 or 500$ that i could be spending on paint supplies for my cd5 plus ill miss IA.