I never would have thought the day would come that my new si motor would be knocking. But here is the situation. My oil reach 15% last sat and instead of me driving my car around i decided to leave it parked at hm in the garage. That sunday morning i Drove it to EZ Lube(Biggest Mistake) since Honda was closed who always does the mait on my car since i first bough it in 08. So I payed 72.62 for full synthetic mobil 1. So as I was walking talking on the phone i notice the guy going back and forth from the car. So I approach him and ask what are you doing Can you just do what i payed for which is the oil change. He replies back saying yea im having difficulty so i said look can u get a more experienced tech to get the job done. So he calls his friend I watch him. Then i go inside to pay after he was finished. My friend was inside and says i Just watched him go back and put one more oil in the car i think he didnt put enough. So i ask him to check it to make sure he check and it appeared to be fine. So I bring in the new yr with my Gf and friends and family as im driving back hm my friend pulls next to me(in his 09 4dr si) and was like aye i saw smoke man wtf is going on then the worst happens i start hearing a clicking noise(spun rod bearing noise) and I had the sign of disbelief. We pull off the freeway and pop the hood we tried to take off the oil cap. The oil cap was to tight for some odd reason so 1 1/2 after we get the car towed to my house my friend pops the hood uses pliers and removes the cap and lord and behold water in my ****. I was so pissed i flipped out. So now my Si is down. But Im already starting on some options since i Have money to Fix it but was wondering/ asking for some input.

So Im leaning more towards a k24a1 Crv Block with the transfer of the oil cooler, high compression pistons, rings and connecting rods. Or a k24a2 Tsx block

Here is my current set up

HFP suspension with Skunk2 springs
Beaks Lower Tie bar
Tsx Intake Cam
Injen CAI
Skunk2 Race Header
P2R TBS
Custom 2.75 Cat back exhaust with stock muffler
Flashpro

Need some input on which option I should go thanks in advance oh n ps pending lawsuit against EZ Lube but til then need to get my baby back up and running

 

k24a2 block with your z3 head would be nasty.

 

Uh, first things first, learn proper grammar.

Next...

The oil change place should be paying for your motor.

and last...

A synthetic oil change with Mobil 1 (Pennzoil platinum is better BTW) would have been $55 at Walmart.

 

damn D thats some ****!
i was actually about to hit you up on new years eve.
i would do the a2 with the z3 head.

but damn thats crazy. i'd sue them for as much as you can get.
but if i were you, i would take pictures of everything and document everything.

but damn how'd they get water in it?

so maybe now that means that you should do your own oil changes from now on?
if u want dude, just pay for the oil and shoot me 15 bucks and ill change it for you.

oh and one thing, i was reading on k20a.org about something that the tsx exhaust cam is the one that you actually want to get instead of the intake cam?

 

Yea max new Yrs Eve was cool u should have hit me up i was in the San B area just basically chillin. Yea I have both intake cam and exhaust cam in my closet now. I went back to stock for the time being since i was getting ready to supercharge it like i mentioned to you. But I contacted Hmotorsonline and they have the tsx long block for 1900.00 so I was thinking about going that route and then selling the tsx head. But how was new yrs man. Dude i gotta link up with you guys once i get this damn block installed. So im going to order the longblock on monday now i just have to find a legit shop to install it and warranty.

 

im mis understanding something here. would you like me to call the oil change shop for you ? Seriously that shop has a duty to fix your car....its called a job...they break they fix dead serious. they have to do it.

 

yea i was gonna hit you up, but to see if you wanted to roll with us to long beach to see pastrana's jump. well how much you wanna get rid of one of the cams for? my new years was good man, we saw pastrana's jump and **** then we ate at famous dave's and watched the fireworks show on the queen mary. well **** im down to chill even if your car aint fixed, just let me know soon before i might get sent off somewhere for work and one of these weekends ill take off to roll down and kick it for a day.

 

How do you know for sure they put the water in your motor?

Doesn't really even sound like you have much of a case.

You sure with all the mods you have(especially the cam swap) that someone else didn't eff up your ****? If I was the defense for the lube place I'd be all over that.

You have a lot of performance mods, you must baby your car huh? Get off it man

 

Regardless, if he bitches they'll pay.

 

I really do baby my car. I have alot of performance mods to have power but that doesnt mean i was beating my car in the dirt. All my mods were installed by honda which I have all my reciepts and have the diagnostics per visit that proved how much I babied my car. And my it was a milk chocolate color the color you get when you mix the two. And Max knows I baby my car because I bought flashpro the first day it was released and didnt install it because I wanted to make sure everything was perfect before I did. Took me over 2 months to install it. This sucks because I ordered a stage 2 Comptech Supercharger with the 3.15' pulley.

 

They were probably having difficulty getting the oil filter off. Even an idiot that works at a lube place would not put water in your motor.

You are stuck. They will not pay anything for your motor. You probably have a bad head gasket...Are you sure the ignition timing was tuned properly with your flashpro?

 

My car has been tuned at church, so tunning is not the key. You might be right in regards of them denying it but I have a witness and its on camera and i called them and out of a sudden they discontinued mobil 1 from the selves hmmmmm so yea its really starting to get interesting but regardless of the fact im getting her back up and running and start the legal process

 

Have them on camera doing what? Putting oil in your car? They probably just don't want to sell the mobile 1 anymore......I see no proof of anything in your case

 

Its an easy filter to get to, they have a **** ton of wrenchs that make it even easier to get to.
And this is why I hate you, you are a ****ing troll that shoots off his mouth and knows NOTHING. I used to work at one of those oil change places, they all have cameras and they are insured, to keep their nuts out of the fire they pay out when **** like this happens.

 

tokyo, compare it to 90 percent of the cars out there and it's harder....You would be a fool to deny that. I do my own, I didn't say it can't be done, just a little harder than most.

Trust me, the lube's insurance company will not just write a check because someone says water was put in the motor just on hearsay. Show me the proof.

And the camera will only help them since they can watch them work with no water in sight. And tokyo I love that you hate me.

 

how about we get off what the lube place did or didn't do....does it really matter? does it affect you personnally?

OP, go with a built K242 bottem end being that you bought a supercharger. A stock one tuned properly would do fine too.

 

ajp, this is why nobody really likes you.
because of your ignorant posts in matters that you just dont know anything about.
the point here is, D's car was running fine before he got there and when he left it wasnt running fine. obviously something the techs did at ez lube f*cked his car up.

and his mods are just bolt-ons. and dont say the cam can cause it to spin a rod bearing, because it cant.

and i know for fact that D does baby his car because he proved it to me when we first met.

 

Ivtec, Just show me the damn proof already since it is so ****ing evident that they messed up the car.

There is none.

Maybe they messed with the head when they put the cam in and it leaked coolant into the oil.

And what is it that I don't know about? There is no proof of anything.

What we do know is that he went for an oil change. His car is modded. And now he is having problems. I'm just stating the obvious and that's it

 

how can i show you proof when its not my car? why dont you have the op post up what he has? i know D personally and i know he isnt lying. he already said that the tech was doing something suspicious by walking back and forth to his car.

and how the hell can you leak coolant into the oil when doing a cam swap? you dont even pull off the head to swap a tsx cam. also note that the honda dealer did the cam swap.

i already told you i have no grudge or dislike towards you. but maybe you should have someone else read your posts and see if they find it disrespectful.

 

I'm not saying he's lying I just think he is making an accusation he can't prove...

aahhggg

 

so then should he blame the honda dealer when his car was running perfectly fine?
yeah thats not going to work.

 

Compared to most Toyota cars its easy. And you dont go in there saying that water was put in the oil, you go get it looked at by a shop and then go back and say my car wasnt acting like this before.

Going in and volunteering info is what fools do.

 

^you'll be surprised.

 

And your average driver runs the **** out of their car.

 

I have contacted Ez lube corporate and they have already started the process in regards of getting my motor replaced. In the meantime I have found a k20a type r block that I can install. Max hit me up im only off on sunday monday but I get off work at 6pm everyday , So let me know.