Ok, so Im in the middle of removing a F20C from an S2K. How did you guys do it? did you follow the Honda book? Did you remove the trans and engine as one? please give me some pointers

 

Pm Mr. Projekt ..

 

im pretty sure you its easier to remove the motor and trans seperately, although some people have gotten both out as one piece.

 

ohh man it took me like 2-3 hours to get the intake manifold off! holy hell.. we are taking the head off to inspect the cyl walls..

 

Start a new post, and do a follow up /update/ write up... with pictures.

 

both at the same time through the bottom by removing the subframe.

3 hours for the IM, were you guys drinking?


Easiest to remover the head while leaving the IM on, can be done in 2 hours.

 

Pull the whole thing out. There's not much space to work while it's in the car.

 

you can remove head w/o taking the intake manifold.

 

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Break it down old man.

 

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I said the same thing a couple posts up

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MidwestAutoWorks &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">both at the same time through the bottom by removing the subframe.

3 hours for the IM, were you guys drinking?


Easiest to remover the head while leaving the IM on, can be done in 2 hours.</TD></TR></TABLE>

haha no.,.. our first time.. all the origional brackets were still on... ok and we removed the turbo kit too...

and ill look at femoving all of it thanks!

 

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I said the same thing a couple posts up</TD></TR></TABLE>

sorri~... geez..

 

yeah.. so we found out cylinder 3 (2nd cylinder closest to the crank puley) had some piston slap going on.

Where is everyone sending there short blocks to get sleeved and built up with pistons/rods etc. we are local to King.. but they are very pricey..

 

Heres what we found when the head was pulled.
Cylinder #1

Cylinder #3
Nice!

 

The cams didn't look so great either.
Intake

Exhaust

 

I see cancer.

 

OMG wtf happend to those cams? Oil starvation?

 

Motor ran on regular oil for about 2000 miles. The car was sitting around for a long time and I think that contributed to the cams getting screwed up.

 

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yeah. that and the grounds on the spark plugs fell off once.. so the sides of the pistons are chewed up...

that wasnt cyl one...but that was the piston that was giving us noise..

 

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well it sat for a long time.. so the oil probably dripped away from the top of the cam... its only on the intake cam on one side....

ohh yeah, are the valves supposed to be painted blue and yellow? or is that a sign that someone has been in the engine b4?

 

ouch, thats not good.

 

well, the motor and trans is out! time to drop the shortblock off at King! hehe.. i love spending sprees

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where can we find the comptech rear diff kits.. supposebly they dont make them anymore.

what kind of cams would be good? Ive heard bad things about crower. what about skunk2's?

 

It all depends on what kind of setup you are going for to pick your cams. Forced induction, all motor. I have heard the comptech is junk, do a search in s2ki.com for the r200 rear end conversion, that will definately hold up.

 

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is that the non turbo 300zx rear end conversion? its like 2 grand isnt it?

and we are doing forced induction...

 

Yeah it is the non-turbo 300zx. It will take your beating though. I heard the comptech wasn't that great through people on s2ki.com