So we put the old engine back in yesterday. Woohoo 1.5 L power

We took it apart today and found:

loose flywheel bolts

Thats it. I have every lil piece of my engine apart right now & all is good. Looked everything over carefully....

Soooo.... now that it's all apart... time to find out which cams will work & get some machining done.

BTW... Albany brake pads work really well The reason I had bad braking last wkend at VIR was because those pads completely sucked ****. They were gone & I was braking on nothing but the backing plate. bleh. I put them in before I went to the hotel.

All is well... & will be better!!! Glad nothing really was bad.

Pete

 

If you are going to use cheap brake pads, don't use Albany. I agree; they are terrible. Mega fade and super fast wear....

Use Pep Boys Raybestos Ceramic Enhanced QS Nascar Select (whew! thats a mouthful). These pads STAND UP to track abuse. They are fairly easy on rotors, too. I typically get 8 to 10 hard track days on a set, plus 5k or so street miles.

Todd

 

Do you remember what I asked you on sunday Pete??????? About your flywheel bolts???


Hint: "Locktite".........!!!!????

 

Hey, Pete...that's great to hear...glad it wasn't much else than that. (For some reason I was thinking there were holes in the block and oil puking out onto the ground). Good luck on gettin' it back together, mang!

 

That is awesome that the motor's internals were not damaged!

 

Pete, you really gotta pull a few exhaust valves or at least do a leakdown. Bent valves do not always appear bent when they are seated.

Don't ask me how I know that

Warren

 

glad to hear the good news

 

yak so smart!!!! but it didn't sound like flywheel bolts to me.....but it could cause your bearrings to be messed up cause of it not throwing the weight evenly!!

 

LOL... I guess more loctite than I put on there would have been helpful.

Bent valves... doesnt matter. Im refreshing the whole head. New valves, retainers, LMA, new rocker arms... the whole shebang. I got it apart now, might as well put it back together perfect. BTW... I havent been to the machine shop, yet, so Im still not out of the woodwork. Something could be off that I cant see.

The stock b20 rods look like d16 rods... Im wondering how they can last the sheer torture I put through it, esp w/ that long stroke.

Pete

 

hmmmm use better rods.....wait the hondachallenge rules won't let you...dang it!!!

 

shows what i know.........not a damn thing