So I was driving the girl home from class this morning and hit a rather large puddle. At the time it didn't look very deep. Water into intake. Bottom end seized. What now? I've never had this problem. What do i need to do to fix it? Local Honda wants 4500+ to get it up and running and can't even find a gsr motor for it.

 

Congratulations on Hydro-Locking your motor.

You probbably have multiple bent/broken internal engine parts. It's going to take some serious work to fix that, or a new motor.

Cold air intake?

 

Was on it when I bought it.

They have had no luck finding a new motor.

 

do the work your self. its not as hard as you think. pull the head and inspect it. if it looks good then just buy an ls shortblock and go ls vtec. you can also order a b20b and do a crvtec. finding a used ls should be easy and cheap. call your local ricer shop. im sure you can find a complete long block for under 600$.

 

Same thing happened to me. We bought my wife a 2000 GS-R, and it came with an AEM cold air intake installed. I meant to replace it with a factory intake, but before I got around to it she got caught in a flash-flood and sucked in water. She was able to drive home, but it was making a bad knocking noise, and a compression test showed no compression on cylinder #1.

I ended up rebuilding the engine. The #1 exhaust valves were bent slightly, and the #1 connecting rod was severely bent. I had a local machine shop replace all four valves on the #1 cylinder and clean up the head and change all the valve stem seals (the engine was burning oil before this happened), and I did all the rest myself. The car spent several months in the garage since I had never rebuilt an engine before, and didn't have that much time to dedicate to it. The total cost was probably around $800 - 1000, mostly in parts (new valves, new piston and rod, new rings on all 4 pistons, new gaskets, and I also took the opportunity to change the timing belt, water pump, dist. cap & rotor, belts, etc.), and $250 or 300 of that was the machine shop head work.

 

this just happend to my buddys gsr. i would tear your motor down if i was you. my buddys just needed two new rods. the rods hit the bottom of the cylinder walls but the pistond dont go down that far so we put it back together with just new rods and a headgasket and it still runs perfect.