So I ripped apart the motor to see what was wrong. I knew that my rings were toast and that it was running on 3 cylinders. But I didn't expect this.

After pulling the head this is what I found


As you can see there is nice chunk missing on the upper part of the piston. So I dropped the pan to pop it out. After removing it I was convinced that FMU's SUCK!!!




I posted about the car blowing up a lil bit ago.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1249165

It was'nt totally the FMU that caused this. The grounding wire for my inline fuel pump fell off. But I wouldn't be using one if I weren't a cheap *** and of got some 450's. I'm not even really upset. It's time for something new and it was real fun while it lasted

 

 

damn, that is to bad those are stock pistons right?

 

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Correct

 

So what are your new plans?

 

fmu's do suck
You shouldnt have a hard time finding replacement pistons

 

I allready sold the turbo kit. A friend of mine is picking up the car tommorow. I'm graduating from H.S. next week so I'm off to europe and have no use for a car. When I get back I will be buying a WRX I think. I really want to build up another honda on the side. But who knows

Also the cylinder walls are ****. The motor is worthless.

 

i would replace the pistons and rods, get and tune uberdata, and get on the road again

 

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Surprisingly the rods are fine. When I build again I'm gonna do a b18b I think.

 

the engine is the d16y8 right? how much would you wanna sell the tranny for?

 

if you would like i have some vitara pistons with rings, clips and wrist pins for sale... i would sell for pretty cheap.

 

I'm not trying to rebuild this one. Everything is allready sold. If I do build another honda that **** will be bulletproof. I wanna do a fully built ls turbo.