pulled the head off, don't see anything??
 

ok pulled the head of my prelude, two of the spark plugs kinda had a greenish tint to them, looked at the cylinder walls, they seem to be ok, no scratchs or scars, so I fill the cylinders up with gas like abaz said, and it took like 30 min before all the gas was gone, the gas drained out in all four cylinder evenly. so I look and the head gasket, its a metal one(3 layer), didn't see any thing wrong with it, also when I was taking off the head some Of the bolts came out a lot easier than others, I was think maybe teh guy didn't torque the bolts down. I will take pics of gasket, but I don't know how to post them, so If can email them to somebody that would be cool, thanks Ray

Re:blew the rings again, anyhelp?
 

Ouch, I hate that situation. I would say just get new rings and break em in good.

Re:blew the rings again, anyhelp?
 

yea did you take it easy on the motor when u first put it in?...sounds like you may have gotten screwed...take off the head and see if the promised parts are there

Re:blew the rings again, anyhelp?
 

yea pretty much so, but when I bought the motor it already had 8,000 N/A miles on it. but when I first got the motor I pulled the plugs and cylinder 1 and 4 where a lighter white color.

Re:blew the rings again, anyhelp?
 

oh i thought u bought it right after the rebuild and put 8k on it

Re:blew the rings again, anyhelp?
 

did u hear any pinging?

Re:blew the rings again, anyhelp?
 

no I didn't hear anything, Igot on it on the high-way, but its only at 5 psi, than I stopped at a light and it shut off, had a hell of a time getting startd again, opened the hood and there was oil all over the engine bay, started the car to get it home and, smoke or steam was coming out of the breather valve, alot of blue smoke coming out of tail pipe, and when I stopped at a redlght or something I would have smoke coming in to the car from the vents, what a mess :-\, so what are good parts to use, I want better rods, pistons, ring, and re-do the head with forged parts.

Re:blew the rings again, anyhelp?
 

je has good stuff. endyn? srp? eagle?

Re:blew the rings again, anyhelp?
 

re-do the head with forged parts?

Re:blew the rings again, anyhelp?
 

hmm blown gasket is my guess