Alrighty, if this topic has been beaten to death, I'm sorry. I'm having trouble finding info pertaining to my specific needs and problems.

My gsr lost compression in its #3 cylinder. It burned more oil than I'd like it to have previously [more than a qt every 1k miles] and it has a total of 138k miles on the engine. My vote is it burned a valve up, its not smoking or anything but I fell the need to just replace the valves and pistons.

My plan is to install new black nitride valves, maybe replaced the springs with double springs, possibly keep the stock retainers. Valves are going to cost me around 200, they are supertechs from JHP usa

I have a friend that has a set of JE SRP 81mm 9:1 compression pistons rings ect , eagle H beams with acl bearings. He wants 550 for the set, I'm trying to talk him down on them, they are brand new.

I ordered a oem honda head gasket, valve cover gasket set and arp head studs.

What else do I need and or should replace and what problems do you think I might run into?

My goal is to have it in the high 11s on slicks at around 350-400hp. I just wonder how far I can push the hp limit and if these pistons are worth a crap and also if my oem retainers are going to hold up. I'm scared of titanium retainers and do not want them dropping a valve after 25k or so miles.

I know these questions are loaded but please bear with me.

I will eventually sleeve it and go LS 84mm with cp pistons but I do not have the money right now for all that and am wanting to drive my teg again with in a reasonable amount of time.

Thanks for your time, of which I promise I'm not waisting. I own a shop and this work will be done.
DK

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Boosted_B_Series &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> Alrighty, if this topic has been beaten to death, I'm sorry. I'm having trouble finding info pertaining to my specific needs and problems.

My gsr lost compression in its #3 cylinder. It burned more oil than I'd like it to have previously [more than a qt every 1k miles] and it has a total of 138k miles on the engine. My vote is it burned a valve up, its not smoking or anything but I fell the need to just replace the valves and pistons.

My plan is to install new black nitride valves, maybe replaced the springs with double springs, possibly keep the stock retainers. Valves are going to cost me around 200, they are supertechs from JHP usa

I have a friend that has a set of JE SRP 81mm 9:1 compression pistons rings ect , eagle H beams with acl bearings. He wants 550 for the set, I'm trying to talk him down on them, they are brand new.

I ordered a oem honda head gasket, valve cover gasket set and arp head studs.

What else do I need and or should replace and what problems do you think I might run into?

My goal is to have it in the high 11s on slicks at around 350-400hp. I just wonder how far I can push the hp limit and if these pistons are worth a crap and also if my oem retainers are going to hold up. I'm scared of titanium retainers and do not want them dropping a valve after 25k or so miles.

I know these questions are loaded but please bear with me.

I will eventually sleeve it and go LS 84mm with cp pistons but I do not have the money right now for all that and am wanting to drive my teg again with in a reasonable amount of time.

Thanks for your time, of which I promise I'm not waisting. I own a shop and this work will be done.
DK</TD></TR></TABLE>

500 is an awesome deal for je pistons and eagle h-beams. but before you buy all this stuff i think you should tear the block apart or just bring it to a machinist to find out if you can even use the 81mm pistons. it might be time to bore and hone a lil. the machinist will tell you that the right way to do it would be to bore and hone the clyinders so there not distorted which would probably bring your bore to 81.50mm.

the heads gonna need new valve seals possibly even new valve guides. i would go with a set of springs and LOCKING retainers. dont reuse the oem stuff.

you could make 400 easily on the motor with 81.5mm slugs, eagle h-beams, valves springs, locking retainers, new oem valves, and a good set of cams.

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerosearch

 

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500 is an awesome deal for je pistons and eagle h-beams. but before you buy all this stuff i think you should tear the block apart or just bring it to a machinist to find out if you can even use the 81mm pistons. it might be time to bore and hone a lil. the machinist will tell you that the right way to do it would be to bore and hone the clyinders so there not distorted which would probably bring your bore to 81.50mm.

the heads gonna need new valve seals possibly even new valve guides. i would go with a set of springs and LOCKING retainers. dont reuse the oem stuff.

you could make 400 easily on the motor with 81.5mm slugs, eagle h-beams, valves springs, locking retainers, new oem valves, and a good set of cams. </TD></TR></TABLE>

The engine is almost taken apart, I had to work on a turbo crx at the shop last night and didnt have time. Hopefully I'll have it torn down further with in a day or so to find out if there is any wall damage. Thanks for your reply and the tip about the locking retainers.

 

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What exactly would you like to me search for you smart *** dick ****?

Why even take the time to post a expletive tard reply like this, I've searched and searched and like I said I'm having problems finding answerers pertaining to my specific needs. I can search and bench mark all day but that does nothing.