Finished the tear down and stripped the rings off the pistons, this is what I find:





Found these aluminium shavings trapped in the oil passages beneath the main bearings


My main bearings looked like:






The block goes in to the shop this week. Hopefully everything goes in ok and I don't have to spend any unforseen $$$$$$$

 

JB weld solves all.

p.s. nice fake penny.

p.p.s. does this explain some of your blowby?

 

ouch. That would cause a few problems. Any ideas what would've caused it?

OT. Why did you take a picture of the metal shavings with a fake penny?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Erik95LS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ouch. That would cause a few problems. Any ideas what would've caused it?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think it was the Turbocharger. That's just my guess.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Erik95LS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">OT. Why did you take a picture of the metal shavings with a fake penny? </TD></TR></TABLE>

Ha!

Anyhow, yeah, that would cause a little blowby...

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Oh Oh Will buy...cash in hand. How much extra for the ring lands? Are those JASMA certified?

 

i've gotta think the block is trash after that.

did you see any scoring or more importantly gouging on the cylinder walls?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tnord &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i've gotta think the block is trash after that.

did you see any scoring or more importantly gouging on the cylinder walls?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Its broken ring lands, not a rod thru the block. That is slavageable with a rehone at worse

 

Oddly enough, the cylinder walls look smooth as glass, except for the one with the good piston. It has a very faint scratch in it, I can barely catch it with my fingernail.

Fake penny. lol

I'm actually pretty glad to see that my ringlands were shot. Now I don't feel so bad upgrading .

 

it's not like you wanted the car running right now anyway, right?

well, at least the issue(s) was easy to find..

 

lol, those things looked better than my forged arias pistons..

 

The ringlands look pretty ouch

How many miles were on the motor and how many of those were turboed?

 

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Its broken ring lands, not a rod thru the block. That is slavageable with a rehone at worse</TD></TR></TABLE>

with a chunk of ringland disconnected from the piston, i would've expected some pretty serious gouging in the cylinder walls, enough so that unless you were going to bore it out, the block would be junk. well, i suppose you honda guys could just re-sleeve it. forgot about that.

 

The cracks in the lands were really hard to see, they only fell out once the rings had been removed.

Engine had 60,000kms on it, 20,000 turbo'd.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Dr Pooface &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The cracks in the lands were really hard to see, they only fell out once the rings had been removed.

Engine had 60,000kms on it, 20,000 turbo'd.</TD></TR></TABLE>

that explains it.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tnord &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">that explains it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

That's about how long mine lasted

 

Sorry for the loss, guess it doesnt matter since you are rebuilding but were you running a low comp. head gasket with that motor...

 

Those main bearings dont look that bad actually except the first one.

 

Ya that first one had the big piece of aluminium shaving behind it