Monday, July 21, 2008

it's engine building time! Bought the punk a civic with a blown engine last week. Got the engine pulled and it is killed. Rod thru the pan. Replacements are $1000+ for worn out 100k mile engines. Found out all the d16 honda engines use the same short block. Pulled the vtec head off the old engine, replaced the bent valves and did a valve job on 'er. Bought a non vtec engine for $300 and pulled it down. Slapping new rings/bearings in tomorrow and hopefully have time to assemble everything and get it back in the car. $850 for a fresh engine isn't too shabby considering what the used junk is going for. Might try and sell the old non vtec stuff and make a little change back. Dang engine from the boneyard is spotless. Says alot for honda quality. Pretty sweet when a 170K engine looks like a 10K engine inside. I'll take the camera in tomorrow and take some pics of the progress. Like anyone cares, but atleast this way maybe the punk will see how much work is going into getting his car running.

Wanna get close tomorrow so i can ride Wed! The Bike Way ride at Schram. Ugh, that place freakin sucks. They don't wanna go to platte because they have some newbs coming along...

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