So I was down at the local track and having a pretty good night, and really enjoying the R.
near the end of the night i missed a shift ( I know...I know...) the tach went up to where 12 or 13 might be. I immediately slammed on the clutch and threw the shifter into neutral. I let the car roll for a while and took a moment to listen for sounds and curse a lot. I was so dissapointed in myself!, afterwards the shifter wouldnt go into gear at all!! and i had to get the car towed to the dealer.
they ended saying my clutch is burnt out and damaged my flywheel.
I also asked them to perform a compression and leakdown and I got the following #'s
cylinder 1 (178)
clyinder 2 (178)
cylinder 3 ( 180)
cylinder 4 ( 178)
and 12% leakdown on all clyinders
now they tell me that these #'s are within spec and I have nothing to be worried about, but I'ved read alot of archive posts on how 5% leakdown is where I want to be

help??? am I in big trouble???

 

You my friend may have been one of the lucky ones.

 

1-2-3-4-5



Man that sucks

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by j4dlsd &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> am I in big trouble???</TD></TR></TABLE>

no where near the trouble you could be....you lucked out bigg time, be thankful for that!

 

yes, very lucky...sounds like you reacted quickly enough and the clutch took the brunt of the damage

 

man. my friend just miss shifted 5th to 2nd on highway

his motor's fucked. but it was a prelude. i guess type r's motor can take more beatings

u sure u dont hear any ticking sound? there's a high chance u bent some of your valves.

 

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Man that sucks </TD></TR></TABLE>

I think this is an advertisment for a BMW short shifter

 

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I couldn't find an animation for a honda, and gave up. Lots of money shift posts in this forum.

 

phew!!! thanks for the feedback guys!
I asked my trusted honda machanic, and called several other acura dealerships in my area and they say that my #'s are fine, high compression Hondas usually put out 175-200 on normal working cylinders and the 12% leakdown I got is nothing to be worried about either. Im so happy to hear this, I sure as hell am one of the lucky ones, and thanking my lucky stars. so the damage is clutch/flywheel and Iam getting a valve adjustment
Thanks H-T

 

So I finally got my caR back from the dealer, and a new clutch/ resurfaced flywheel, waterpump/timing belt ( did it while it was all open to save me the trouble later down the road) and a valve adjustment later.... leaves me with an empty wallet. But I am so happy that things turned out this way and not the infamous blown valvetrain route!

Thanks again for all of you who helped out

 

i checked the compression on mine when i bought it and it was about 255.

Why are your numbers so low, do u know how they did the test. I guess it was probably on a cold engine

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Kavehman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i checked the compression on mine when i bought it and it was about 255.

Why are your numbers so low, do u know how they did the test. I guess it was probably on a cold engine</TD></TR></TABLE>

I asked the same thing, they told me that thats the highest their tester is calibrated to. I guess some testers range from 160-200

 

yeah the lower number the better
sure 5% is where you want to be at..

but 15% and even comp results sounds like an engine that might not be the gnarlies R ever,
but it probly works just fine