OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! My engine just MELTED in the FIRE!!!!!!
 

hey guys I was installing the new pistons today and using the cheap ring compressor I got from auto zone it didn't hold the ring tight enough as it went into the cylinder and broke a chunk out of the ring about a 1/4 in long right at the gap!!! I'm not sure what to do. the pistons/rings are Wiseco and the ring that broke is the Top ring. My bro suggested to just go to Honda tomorrow(sat) and just pick up a standard 81 mm bore ring for my Ls/Vtec, but I measured the old factory top ring(around 100-150K miles on them) and they were different sizes. The Micrometer said they are the same thickness but when I measured the difference between where it contacts the piston (inside the grove) to where it contacts the cylinder wall the factory rings are 10 thousandths smaller than the Wiseco's. After a Full out tear down and rebuild I don't want to run the risk of blow by!!! He thinks it still might be ok to go with the Honda ring but I say as much as it suck's wait till Wednesday since Wiseco isn't open over the weekend :( and put the right stuff in there. As much as it suck's, I just started the Ins. after being w/out a car for the last 3months and this car for the last 6 month's... She'd have been running tonight if not for this, put it on the road and all :'( . I know it's better to just wait and have Wiseco send me a new ring and wait till next week to be rollin' than to go with Honda and run the risk of blow by... what do you guys think?

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id just buy another ring from wiseco, id want to be running all the same rings personally.

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that's exactly how I feel. Nomatter what would happen after she's back together it would ALWAYSE bother me just knowing. Plus the fact that the Honda ring isn't as wide as the Wiseco's might mean that it could have blow by in my opinion. I've got TOOO much money and TIME into this to skinch now! I mean really.... what's a few more days to wait when I've only got about 4 more hours till the engine's ready to be dropped into the car, and have that soundness of mind?

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peace of mind has its pricetag, and its usually well worth it.

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I figure too, Wiseco cant' really be any more than Honda wants for a single ring. I'll just have to wait a few more days to finish her up. I'm pissed and just got owned probably the worst I ever have ( the bottom end was alll built but I just wanted to slide the piston up just high enough to check the top ring to make sure that that one's was on right side up when she broke :'( :'( :'() but gotta say, I mise well make the best of the situation by lookin at it as now I have the whole weekend to relax and take it easy and enjoy. There's nothing I can do about it so I mise well look at the other side of it....... :-\

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wow, you ---- up your car left and right, you sure you have a clue what ur doing?

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we could ask you the same question.

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that's the first half way competant post I've seen from gayrex yet. Ya know, if ya race your gonna break stuff that's how it goes, and alot of things come up with friends cars that I post up questions about on here.

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LOL

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Well..........................



I guess theres no need to worry now! yesterday(sunday,May 15th my dad's garage and house caught on fire and burnt, along with my engine/ tranny and ALL my other crap inside there! My WHOLE Damn engine is melted! and I j - u - s - t got done rebuilding it!!!!!!!! the tranny is melted, i think my new clutch is shot?... the only think that was fine is the 93 civic which was the CHEAPEST OF ALL MY LOSSES! and tha's because it was in the drive way and the rear bumper got melted on that. If some one would be kind enough to tell me how to post pics then I'll post them. It really sucks too because I just put it on the road legally last friday... broke the ring so I didn't drop it in, just found out about the fire today... and was gonna drop it in on Wednesday! Man this sucks!!!!!!! :'( :'( :'(

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:o?to melt an engine???? how big a fire is it.??

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like i said... if someone would be so kind as to tell me how to post pics I'll show you guys.... the whole garage and 50% of the 2 story house is Gone! the WHOLE other half of the house is gone to the water damage from the firemen.... :-\ :'(

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will home owners insurance replace that kind of stuff? sorry to hear man

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it might replace my car body a bit..... but how do you give a quote to ins.?? yeah I want $3200.00, ya see..... its a fully built Ls/Vtec with this part and this head and this oil pump and this line and this tranny from this car. And in the end do you give them the price it will cost for me to replace the stuff new from Honda or what it costs me on Ebay??

Thanks

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http://www.photobucket.com/
to post pic.

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it said there was already a user by that name.... but i'll see what i can do....

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holy smokes.... i want pics so I'll help you, host pics on imageshack.us it's free and easy ;)

Sucks to hear about your loss man, that blows major. :-\

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http://photobucket.com/albums/y226/s...ngineparts.jpg

http://photobucket.com/albums/y226/s...headmelted.jpg

http://photobucket.com/albums/y226/s...eltedblock.jpg

http://photobucket.com/albums/y226/s...trannymelt.jpg

http://photobucket.com/albums/y226/s...urntgarage.jpg

http://photobucket.com/albums/y226/s...uiltbottom.jpg


Thanks alot murdoc, I'm gonna give this a try, just click on the link and it should take you there...... ahh man...... this suck's

thanks guys

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Yeah i heard, jake, this is nuts man. If you can get reciepts and documentation of how much it cost in parts etc i bet the insurance will cover it. Were you livin with your dad or somthing for a time? Hang in there man...

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holy ---- :o :-\
a little bit more heat and it woudl become solid deck :P

hopefully u still have all the recipe.

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ouchie :'(

Damn, dude that sucks even more that I have seen pics :'(

Engine was looking soooo pretty too. :-\

I'd try and gather some reciepts for the items bought. If you need some help, I'll be willing to write you up a reciept for an item or two ;) Hopefully the insurance company will accept personal reciepts, I know the post office does.

Just keep on keepin' on, cause if you give up, you won't have a hot girl or a hot car like joe dirt.

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haha true true my bro's. I gotta say that's the first time I've cracked a smile alllll day, do you guys think that I should report honda cost's or a personal private sale cost? help me out bro's...... :'( I'll see if i can get some more pics up...... :'( :'( :'(

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especially drivin my bro's ls/vtec.... just to think that i don't have that any more, and won't be able to enjoy my newly built baby....

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Find an old messed up turbo and throw that in the pile too!!! Somebody get this guy a receipt, that sucks!!! What cause the fire?

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sorry to see man that fire musta been hot what was in there.

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welllll.....

my dad was cutting out a few broken bolts in his jeep's suspension in the garage with a set-o-Oxycetalyn Torches when he thinks that one of the brake lines or maybe a fuel line, he slid underneath the other side and just past the tire and saw the Whole roof of the garage just filled with a huge orange flame, he said he just went haulin outa there and called 911. So not only the cutting torches were in there but there was an air compressor,3 propane tanks, the jeep had a full tank, and there was a Kerosene space heater in the back. Needless to say he's lucky to get out in time, It had to Be HOT for my whole engine to go up! I had an old LS piston/rod assembly that I found later and there was a rod and wrist pin in it, then there was a pile of piston mush laying a foot away, melted CLEAN off

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no canna, I wasn't stayin with my dad, just keepin my car and build up there over this winter. However ALL my liscense and Ins. is alll addressed to there so that should be a good proof to the homeowners ins. that I lived there even if i didn't

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go gather up all the recips ASAP now.

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http://photobucket.com/albums/y226/s...=meltedrod.jpg

http://photobucket.com/albums/y226/s...ntheground.jpg


this is what all my work and time amounts too.....

the block on the ground pic is what happened when the block melted and it fell off the stand.... Thanks alot guys for all the support. I might need to take some of you up on the reciepts.... lol

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I actually just found most of them in my paypal account which make's me relieved, my bro told me to price them out from Honda, or just tell em it's an Integra Type-r ??

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Wow man, that really sucks!

I hope you get insurance money to cover your damages.

Good luck!

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wow, how much did that Civic type-r motor cost you? ;)

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like 5G'z w/CTR tranny from Honda yO!



Yeah I hope I get somethin for it too. It look'd soo nice and I knew it was a tight engine when I was building it so I was lookin foreward to runnin it. then this happened :-[

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those pics make me sick..... about as sicjk as when i came out and my hatchback was missing.

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didn't know you hada hatch?... I know, just to think too that that's one less B16 head that will never be back in the world.... :-\

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from what the firemen said, the torch tanks went as well as 2 of the 3 propane tanks and gas tank, I just don't know what to do now...... my passion for it isn't lost... but it's just that I'm starting over from ground 1 again, the last 1 1/2 yrs worth of time and money, but what hurts more is all that time, time.. and time that's all worth nothing now :(

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Damn fool... Sorry to hear about the lost. Just remember nothing can replace experience though...

BTW, just use some carb cleaner, I'm sure you can sell some of those stuff on egay.

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yo, you still got my 91 si engine that i let you borrow, in your garage or did the fire melt that to? ;)

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nah sorry man..... that went up with Abaz's engine, AgentMurdoc's car and the $3,000 turbo in there...... ;) I wish i could claim ins. on all that... ::) :-[ i figured out my costs, 4G into the engine/drivetrain alone.......

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The time you invested on your engine, will payoff on the next one.

The knowledge you gained from this, will last you a lifetime

The money you spent, you can always earn again

But your dad... you only get one in life.... be thankfull he made it out ok.....