this is a pic of a lude motor a freind bought for her accord. It doesnt look healthy at all to me. what do you think? the cams and rocker arms look rusted.

damn imagestation doesnt work. here's the link: http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...91907659&idx=0

take a look at the last 2 pics of the album

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ehh how many miles on the motor and where did you get it from?
it dosent look clean..who knows tho could just be whats left of the oil. maybe he didnt change it till 10k miles

 

damn thats whack, when I pull my valve cover off all I see is bling bling silver

 

You might get it to shine again by dipping the hole thing in acid; seriously, it doesn't look good.

 

It looks pretty crappy to me. When I took the valve cover off of my b16 it was clean with a little oil left in certain spots but it definitely did not look like the pics you are showing.

 

when i pulled the head of my friends ls integra with 190,000miles it looked just like that. not good man

 

looks like oil was sitting it in for a while...not sure what you can do.

 

well, its not my motor. its my friends. her and her husband drove all the way to florida to pick this up and this is what they found. i told them the same things you all have said. definately doesnt look healthy to me. i hope im wrong.

when i pull my cover off it still all shiny. hers just looks awful.


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it looks like it hasn't been driven in a couple years, and that the oil just dried up, i hope thats the case, cause that would be a really big waste of time picking that up if it was nothing but junk

 

Have you tried cleaning it? Maybe it is just oil residue?

 

My D16 w/ 170K miles looked cleaner. My old 87 Accord w/180K miles looked cleaner.

Even if you go thru and clean the head, it'll just clean it, not undo whatever excess wear it has gone thru from the lack of proper oil changes.

 

I case you guys didnt know, motors are not always silver inside.
Old ones always have that "anodized oil color" look, mine does! and runs like a champ. But what I see from the pics, is something that probably had lengthy intervals between oil changes and also.. treatment from one of those oil additives that claim "coats your precious engine parts so it will run smoother".

 

yea i just pulled the head off my d16 and it looked 100 times better than that and the motor has 103000 on it.

 

Get 10 cans of the throttle body cleaner and spray that engine.

 

May dad accord with 235,000 miles looked better than that, and he changed to mobil one every 7500 miles on the dot, just like the honda manual says. That my friend, is called sludge.

 

it's called sitting in a junk yard for ever with out any protection. Also mucho abuse from the old owner

 

thats really nasty for a DOHC Vtec engine- lack of oil changes- period. I see it all the time. I would not have bought it. It will probably have bad piston slap when cold.

 

are the cams smooth?