I bought this engine for my accord for $300 w/ harness, ECU, & a severe knock. After taking it apart, the cause was obvious. The #2 and #3 rods snapped. Luckily, neither went through the block. Anyway, they did leave a 1/2" x 1/2" notch on both sides of the bottom of the cylinder sleeves. I already have a set of used replacement pistons, rods, and crank.

My question is:
if the notches are below the lowest travel of the second oil ring, and the engine gets good compression, do I absolutely need to resleeve?

The pictures are below, but they're kind of hard to see since it's not completely disassembled yet.

 

I don't see any reason you should have to; the only probs you would have is if it scratched or gouged the cylinders high enough where it'd screw w/ the rings.

 

i wouldnt even play with that block.. start from scratch and do it right

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LudeyKrus &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I don't see any reason you should have to; the only probs you would have is if it scratched or gouged the cylinders high enough where it'd screw w/ the rings. </TD></TR></TABLE>

sounds good to me. I'm going to assemble it and do a leak-down test. If it looks good, we'll see how it runs...