wow you bent valves after one over heat?glad i dont have any bad tales i guess cause i check,check and check 4more times on everything

 

that was funny

 

I forgot to tune my motor, it lasted 395 miles, no joke. Also, on the same car I installed a motor, started it up, it smoked like snoop, pulled it out. total running time: 60 seconds.

 

Lehigh Baby, ALL Lehigh

 

Yee-Haw

 

I think the worst motor swap horror story is when I was using integra mounts and the axles I could never get to sit striaght they where always a bad angle. I never could fix the problem until I replaced the mounts with hasports and relocated back the tranny side mount. A huge headache on trying to save a few hundred dollars. The axles would always rub on the lower a arm or fork. I tried to cut into the fork to allow clearance for the axles to be able to turn also with out letting it rub while turning. Now I have learned how important it is to just do everything the right way or don't do it at all.

 

I built a nice LS/vtec, never put in aftermaket valves, ran really really good with CTR cams. I swapped in crower stage 3's and ran it for about 3 months, then dropped a valve because of high spring tension and aggressive lobe ramps. Moral of the story: never run "RACE ONLY" cams in an engine with stock valves... It killed EVERYTHING, cracked sleeve, pistons, head, etc, etc. wasted $2k... only thing that was left was the crower rods and a LS crank. now I'm boosted and ONLY run stock honda cams.

 

OUCH!!! Boys and Girls... Do not do that^^^ at home.

nice expensive lesson.

 

I put in a D16Z6 in my old 93 civic out of a wrecked car that i bought for $100. Everything looked fine, except for the dented oil pan. After the swap was done, i was so tired of messing with the car that i didnt bother replacing the oil pan and I was ready to test out the new VTEC motor! Well everything ran "fine" and continued driving the car for about 2 weeks worry free-meanwhile noticing that VTEC just didnt feel right. On my way to class, i was getting harassed by an SUV and decided to take off and get away from the maniacal soccer-mom.. I ran through third in high RPMs and i guess I didnt get enought oil or oil pressure or whatever and slung a rod completely through the block! funny part is-I was planning to swap out the dented oil pan for a good one and give the engine an oil change and tune up after i got out of class that day.

 

I busted one of my A/C lines when doing the swap and I still haven't fixed it.. I definitely need to coz it's getting hot as fuck out.

I also blew one of the seals in the radiator when I hydrolocked my first motor, and coolant/water would come out the vent in my hood when the vtec would engage.. that looked pretty cool.. kinda like purging but ended very shortly when i replaced the radiator.

nothing else went wrong or bad.. except maybe when i had to fix the ECT sensor