got my f20b in and I'm a little worried about these lobes, or am I being too paranoid? Please advise

 

No you're not being too paranoid....that engine looks horrible.

 

lack of oil? rest of engine looks very very clean.

 

Easy to see the oil that WAS in there was run for way way wayyyyy too long. It looks like mud. I wouldn't trust that motor if it was me no matter how good they cleaned up the outside.

 

who did you buy it from?

 

a guy off ebay, for 800 shipped. I've spoken with the guy on the phone and he seems legit. 1 sec and I'll post more pictures of the engine

 

inside of intake mani looks clean

 

is that odb2? do they even make them in obd2 i never read up on the f20b

 

yes it's obd2, it's got 1999 stamped on the head

 

yeah i saw the stamp just wasnt sure they made those in 99. like i said i never read up on that motor

 

That oil really looks horrendous. You could probably clean all that up using something like AutoRx (http://auto-rx.com/pages/faqs.htm), oil forum guys at Bobistheoilguy swear by this stuff. It works very well.

Normally people perform routine maintenance like tbelt, water pump, etc, but in this case might not be a bad idea to change bearings as well.

 

is there metal missing on that cam lobe? looks a little too worn from here.

 

If someone posts a picture of what it normally looks like under the valve cover you'd **** your pants.

 

is that the passanger side exhaust cam with the worn spot?
i damage my oil pan, conitinued to drive it, made some god awful noises and finally died (yea yea i was dumb lets leave it at that). when i pulled the vc off it looked worse than that. what i am trying to say is that lobe does not look good to me. i am not an engine expert, but...

as someone mentioned replacing the bearing maynot be a bad idea. might as well go ahead and get some performance cams.

best of luck.

 

those cams will be in use for all of 2 months

 

What'r your intentions for this engine?

 

that head looks really bad bense... but i've seen worst than that and their car ran fine... lack of oil and lack of mantiance... i'll take a picture of how it should look for you today once i get to work i'll rip my car apart at honda.

 

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you're just the guy I need to talk to, If I want to replace the mains/rods/thrust bearings, would you help me do this? I'm just worried because this thing is supposed to see some real high rpms.

 

$800? I thought the F20's sold for a good bit more than that?

 

it usually does, that's why I snagged this.

 

Also you can send the oil off to have it analized, theres a service that does it, can't recall the name of the place. I'm sure there is enough left in the motor to have it looked over.

 

yeah the #4 Exh Vtec lobe looks a little worn but I would pick it up for that price if my intentions were to replace the cams like you said.


Modified by skunked at 8:36 AM 12/8/2006

 

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Yeah, I think it will be all right if I run some detergent oil stuff in it and baby it until I it cleans out some. I'm just debating on tearing the block down

 

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I would run a compression test and go from there. Maybe pull the pan and make sure you don't find any other fun stuff before you start it up.

 

Minimal cost to repair that...especially if you get new cams. I think you still came out on top.