ill bring pics in as soon as i can find my digital camera. but the rockers have obvious rough feel and wear in them after less than 5000 miles i hope your reading this, skunk2, because you wouldnt let me send them back to look at them without a reciept, which was and is STILL packed up in storage.


becasue now i have a useless head

 

wow... im running the s2sII and its got me thinking...get the pics up if you can

 

Damnn.. that sucks major *** man. Sorry to hear that. I'd say get that receipt and send those sticks back.

 

what motor setup?? I got skunk stage 2's sittin in a box right now waitin to be installed.....Im wonderin if I should just get me Ek9 rockers if it would make a difference? anybody know

 

they are in a 13.3:1 comp b18c with a 1st gen head
ill get some pics up soon. looks like the cams chewed into my rocker arms.

most people will tell you that i have very low miles on this engine, so this shoudlnt have happened

 

wierd, I've never had any problems with my sk2 stg.2 or stg.3

 

Replace the rockers. The whole head is not finished to begin with.

I wonder why this is. Many people have 0 problems with them. Have the cams been lubed like a **** in the first place??

 

wanna see the pics

 

I wouldn't blame skunk2, i would blame murphy (murphy's law), i'm sure you probably used lots of assembly lube right? maybe you got some dirt into the engine? sorry to hear man, if you start a rocker donation fund i'll paypal you one dollar.

 

i got one pic right now.. my camera absolutly sucks at macro.

 

wasnt there a thread on how to refinish rockers?

EDIT: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=901371

 

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there are also some EXTREMLY smart people in that thread talking about what a stupid idea it is to do it. just becasue it can be done does not mean its the right thing to do..


as you can see, the intake side was unharmed, probably becasue i got to it early. the cam was already starting to show some abnormal wear




almost all of the vtec rockers on the exhaust side show signs of abnormal wear.

hopeffully ill be able to get a better camera to take some shots of the cam and closer shots of the rockers tonight




Modified by johnzm at 10:21 PM 10/20/2004

 

Anyone know the price for a set of new rockers? majestic honda said like 130, but is that for each, thats'd be very uneconomical, buy a good b16 head off ebay.

 

did u lube it before you put it in?

 

What kind of engine oil are/were you using and how often did you change it... I've been running skunk2 Stage2's in my b18c(JDM GSR) for over a year now and my rockers don't show any of the kind of wear you are discribing

 

of course. i use assembly lube on anything internally.

i was using havoline oil. LESS THAN 5000 MILES on these cams. im thinking 2000 miles, the cams were in the car 3 months and it was driven lightly because it wasnt happy on pump gas. so i tried not to drive it unless there was c12 in it.

i did 3 valve adjustments in that time, but since the cam was over that part of the rocker i never saw the damage. i looked for problems everytime i did a valve adjustment

 

Ttt

 

i dont see why you get mad at skunk2 for asking for a reciept. Pretty common business practice.

 

talk to omniman about this

 

Those look good compared to this rocker that came out of a GSR head running SK2 stage 1 cams.

The lobe looked just as bad.

DISCLAIMER: Although this is not proof of anything I am just sharing another incident that may or may not have been cam related.

Damn that imagestation, I'll try and get pics up later.

 

what valve springs are you using?

 

This was the only biggest reason for me to go ctr cams instead of an aftermarket cam with a higher lift/duration.
This has happed to one of my friends, running toda b's also.

 

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You can replace the rockers. I probably have a complete set of rocker arms laying around. I have run my Skunk 2 Stage 2's for 15k + with no abnormal wear. Perhaps you got a bad set, or something else is going on?

 

How about some pictures of the cam lobes?

Thanks

 

Skunk 2 is ****

always have been prolly always will be

even there own sponsored racers hate there stuff but since they do a rebuild every race season sometimes more they don't usually have these issues

Skunks cams are notoriuos for breaking and acclerated valvetrain wear, somebody is going to post and say they've had there cams for a billion years and there daihatsu halls *** since finding a set with considerable use that have lasted is like finding a daihatsu that hauls ***

Personnally of all cam manufacturers Piper has some of the best cams for hard driving, so does toda but for street apps crane,crower and ferrea offer good stuff and though I've not had a set myself JUN's cams are fricken awesome for durability.

Gude, JG and other regrinds are




Modified by na 1.5 at 10:45 PM 10/20/2004