EDIT - just kidding it's not my engine, but a customer's B16A2 that you see here. The following story was what I originally posted just to see if people would actually believe it happened, and worst of all, if I'd really think it could be "fixed."



Hey I was driving my B18C5 hatch down the road when I heard a funny clicking coming from under the hood. The engine lost power, and I pulled over, and now it won't start up.

We (some guys at the shop and I) pulled off the intake manifold and exhaust manifold and found some strange stuff - how easy of a fix is this?

Intake side:







Exhaust side:



I'm guessing I'll pull the head off today and clean out that metal stuff and hopefully just slap a new timing belt on it and hope it runs okay.

Thoughts?


Modified by B18C5-EH2 at 4:01 PM 8/17/2006

 

NOOOOO! The TOM! How did that happen? Is this just a freak accident or was there a lot of abuse going on before she let go?

RIP

 

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RIP </TD></TR></TABLE>

Well I fugure after cleaning it all up maybe having the machine shop mill the deck and then slap it back together with a new head gasket and go for another 100,000 miles, right?

 

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Might want to get busy with some JB weld on the 8 million fragments of piston that I see there too. Just a suggestion

 

can you say OUCH
oh well atleast you have resources...
*faint chanting* k k k k k

update us with some pics when you take the head off

 

I seriously hope you are joking.

 

lol holy ****

 

Yikes! lol

Shitty, but those are some sweet *** pics!

Let's see what it looks like when you take it apart!

So did this really just happen as you were driving down the road? Or was that a joke as well? How many miles did this engine have on it?

 

damn your motor took a crap...looks really bad man...post picures of the bottom end

 

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There are plenty of pictures of the bottom end there already. Can't you see all the piston chunks and ring fragments in the intake and exhaust ports lol

 

tom im sure we can weld most of that back together to get you back on the road.

that **** will buff out

 

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Yeah I'll call you when we get the head off - we're pretty busy today at the shop, so we might not have much time to get to it today.

 

Damn Tom sorry to see that go. This sure as hell isnt the year for Hondas im seeing. What are your plans? I remember that motor being there since ive been on the site. Oh, did you ever finish your D16A (?) build?

 

WOW. that thing took a **** lol. sorry to see that happen. theres looks to be piston ring lands and all kinds of stuff in there

 

I think you could pull it off with a new timing belt. Headgasket would be overkill.

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What is there to joke about right now?

 

I had the same thing happen to me four months ago, I threw a valve and that's what was left of it. The motor was never the same again. A clear sign on it was that I burnt out my third cylinder housing, it was completely pitch black, the spark plug and everything...completely destroyed. I don't know what to tell you though, that was a SOHC, it cost $400 and a Type-Hard is worth much more. Good luck

On a side note you could get a SOHC (if you need to replace the motor) and boost it

 

thats just one more reason for me to be jealous of your car . your always the first to do something over the top. sorry for the loss.

 

wowwww

and least it didn't go KABOOOOOOOOOOMMMM like my buddys jdm itr by downshifting into second

 

damn that thing fucked up. post some pics when the head is off

 

elballug

 

time to go K

http://www.k20a.org/racecar/tachscivic.MPG

 

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You spelled "gullible" incorrectly there, chief

 

Damn it.

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Okay so I thought I'd play a little H-T joke.The engine is actually a B16A2 from an 00 Civic Si coupe, and it's a customer's car, not mine.

My car was driven today for the first time in a few weeks and it is just fine.

So anyways did anyone notice a few things in my pics?

1. Upside down valve smashed back into the head

2. The oiler piston ring in the intake port

3. A perfect hole where a valvestem smashed through the exhaust port

4. Cylinder wall linings in the intake ports

We also found a freaking valvestem in the cat convertor too! WTF?

Total carnage. I'm hoping they let us yank the head off for ***** and giggles. I'll be sure to take detailed pics if they give us the go ahead. I told them we'd do it free of charge.

 

HAHAHAHA! good one! yeah post some more pics of the damage.

 

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3. A perfect hole where a valvestem smashed through the exhaust port

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