My cousin has a 95 Legend and wants to have the engine rebuilt. Who specializes in this? Any help is appreciated.

 

^ Anybody know?

 

http://acura-legend.com/vbulle...?f=11

 

did he have a type I or type II engine?

rebuilding it either way may be more expensive since parts are hard to come by or each part is really expensive.
its best to buy whole engine/tranny/ecu etc from a reputable import engine place and swap it in.

 

I talked to him and it is a type 1 with auto. It has 209000 miles on it and had the head gasket replaced one time. He takes really good care of the car. I figue with that many miles he needs new pistons and piston rings for sure. From what i've read, its the 3rd and 6th cylinder that blow the head gasket. He thought about a swap, but doesn't want to swap in the same engine and have the same problem. I told him to read info in the Legend forum to figure out which engine would be good to swap.

 

legend engines are prone to blown headgaskets. others fail sooner than others.
im lucky so far. i only have 54,000 miles on mine but its still 10yrs old.

these engines will run forever if taken care off.
if its his headgasket again, it may be cheaper to just fix and replace the gasket or he can do a Type II swap. it will bolt right in.

as for other engines to swap in thats about it unless he gets the JDM alpha touring engine which has more HP/TQ than the TYPe II but its still a legend engine. not any other choices out there for the legend.

 

^ Is the type II less prone to have head gasket problems. His mechanic told him that if he fixes the problem with the head gasket, he will create another problem. That problem being too much pressure on the piston rings.

 

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No. But the cost of the HG repair he already needs would go a long way towards a Type 2 swap.

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It's possible. On a high mileage engine, you sometimes run into problems with smoking/oil burning if you rework the heads and leave the rings untouched. It doesn't always turn out that way, but it is a possibility.

 

Thanks for all the help. One last question. If the pistons were replaced (forged stock spec) would you need to sleeve the block?

 

doubt it but it would still be a costly thing to do.
plus he is not pushing that much HP anyways.

best thing to do is just do a swap of a type II motor/tranny/ECU.

 

Thanks for all of the help.