Problems with my car...
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Problems with my car...
This question is really geared tward John, and anyone with _alot_ of Honda expierence.
Although anyone with viable, and reasonable answers, please feel free to jump in.
Problems with my car...
The timing belt for one, seems horribly lose since I brought it to some BS 'side of the road' shop on hillsborough ave. The guy told me it was fine, I know better... a half inch of jumpyness isn't good.
Secondly, My injector O rings (on the manifold side) are screwed up causing some serious vacuum leak. The mechanic was suposed to fix this. He didn't. At least he didn't charge me for it.
Exhaust leak on the manifold... aparently my turbo manifold has become warped, perhaps from me taking it on and off so much.... it now leaks fairly bad.
Car bucks and hessitates... this may be due to the vacuum leak. I am not sure. I put the old stock injectors, and it cleared this problem up..... Once I put the RC 310's in again. It started again. *shrug*
Leaky return line... My oil return line leaks a good amount of oil... It's really annoying and I don't know what to do to fix this... the turbo kit is pretty much self made... Im not a mechanic, so... well you can imagine.
I can't seem to get the car to idle well... the head makes serious noises if I move the valve lash to stock cam specs, and the car doesn't seem to run right if I move them to Crower (who made my cam) specs.... Im at a loss.
The check engine light comes on, does not blink if you jump the ECU to trap a code.
When you first start the car, it idle's rough... about 2 mins after you leave it running, the check engine light comes on... then it idles @ ~2K rpm, and seems all happy. and it runs fine (just idles really high).
So basicly Im really depressed about all this. I made this rebuild so the car would last longer being boosted, and hopefully be faster.... Unfortunatly I don't know what to do. Ive been to 3 mechanics now, and the car is with Collin (Race Integration). He says he hears... piston noise. I asked him what that was yesterday, and he said he could hear them... "moving back and fourth" in the chamber... Now I trust his insight on this... he has a 10 second CRX. My only worry is that I don't know him personally, and Ive never heard of piston noise. Also... Wouldn't I be losing compression somehow if they were moving around? (Checked friday - 150 160 160 150). Just wish I knew more about this stuff to be of some help to myself. I should have just rebuilt it back to stock and gone from there. Unfortunatly I had to get elaborate with shit.
Anyhelp would be apreciated.
Thanks TR.
JC
I just hope he can fix my problems.
Although anyone with viable, and reasonable answers, please feel free to jump in.
Problems with my car...
The timing belt for one, seems horribly lose since I brought it to some BS 'side of the road' shop on hillsborough ave. The guy told me it was fine, I know better... a half inch of jumpyness isn't good.
Secondly, My injector O rings (on the manifold side) are screwed up causing some serious vacuum leak. The mechanic was suposed to fix this. He didn't. At least he didn't charge me for it.
Exhaust leak on the manifold... aparently my turbo manifold has become warped, perhaps from me taking it on and off so much.... it now leaks fairly bad.
Car bucks and hessitates... this may be due to the vacuum leak. I am not sure. I put the old stock injectors, and it cleared this problem up..... Once I put the RC 310's in again. It started again. *shrug*
Leaky return line... My oil return line leaks a good amount of oil... It's really annoying and I don't know what to do to fix this... the turbo kit is pretty much self made... Im not a mechanic, so... well you can imagine.
I can't seem to get the car to idle well... the head makes serious noises if I move the valve lash to stock cam specs, and the car doesn't seem to run right if I move them to Crower (who made my cam) specs.... Im at a loss.
The check engine light comes on, does not blink if you jump the ECU to trap a code.
When you first start the car, it idle's rough... about 2 mins after you leave it running, the check engine light comes on... then it idles @ ~2K rpm, and seems all happy. and it runs fine (just idles really high).
So basicly Im really depressed about all this. I made this rebuild so the car would last longer being boosted, and hopefully be faster.... Unfortunatly I don't know what to do. Ive been to 3 mechanics now, and the car is with Collin (Race Integration). He says he hears... piston noise. I asked him what that was yesterday, and he said he could hear them... "moving back and fourth" in the chamber... Now I trust his insight on this... he has a 10 second CRX. My only worry is that I don't know him personally, and Ive never heard of piston noise. Also... Wouldn't I be losing compression somehow if they were moving around? (Checked friday - 150 160 160 150). Just wish I knew more about this stuff to be of some help to myself. I should have just rebuilt it back to stock and gone from there. Unfortunatly I had to get elaborate with shit.
Anyhelp would be apreciated.
Thanks TR.
JC
I just hope he can fix my problems.
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this wont help your problem but maybe you shouldnt be building motors.
thats ALOT of shit to have go wrong.
when i put my 1st motor together the only prob i had was the battery died
but thats not my fault.
ppl arent gunna want to trouble shoot shit they did not put together.
its a pain in the ass.
your the best bet to fix it, since you did all the putting together.
once agian im not tryin to be a dick so dont get all pissy plz
thats ALOT of shit to have go wrong.
when i put my 1st motor together the only prob i had was the battery died
but thats not my fault.
ppl arent gunna want to trouble shoot shit they did not put together.
its a pain in the ass.
your the best bet to fix it, since you did all the putting together.
once agian im not tryin to be a dick so dont get all pissy plz
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Being that I only helped my mechanic build the motor Im not the best person for the job. I can troubleshoot small shit, but im a far cry from wanting to rebuild my bottom end and torqueing shit down. I just don't want to do it. I paid someone to do it last time, and Im doing so again to double check his work since the fucking POS doesn't want to run properly... at least I know what the problems are... it could be worse.
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Re: Problems with my car...
The timing belt for one, seems horribly lose
- Retension it. Simple but a pain in the ass.
Secondly, My injector O rings (on the manifold side) are screwed up causing some serious vacuum leak.
- If you smell gas then the O-rings are fubared, otherwise the leak is elsewhere. If it's the O-rings, simply drop by ACE Hardware and pick up some new ones.
Exhaust leak on the manifold... aparently my turbo manifold has become warped, perhaps from me taking it on and off so much.... it now leaks fairly bad.
- Manifold wouldn't warp from simply unistalling it. If you believe the flange to be warped, simply remove it, check the trueness of it. If it's not in spec, simply slap it up against a grinding wheel or however you want to go about it.
Car bucks and hessitates... this may be due to the vacuum leak. I am not sure. I put the old stock injectors, and it cleared this problem up..... Once I put the RC 310's in again. It started again. *shrug*
- If the stock injectors cure the problem, leave 'em in until you fix the rest of this shit.
Leaky return line...
- Run over to Amazon Hose and get a new one.
I can't seem to get the car to idle well... the head makes serious noises if I move the valve lash to stock cam specs, and the car doesn't seem to run right
- Make sure your cam timing is right.
The check engine light comes on, does not blink if you jump the ECU to trap a code.
- Sure you're jumping the service connector and not something else? If the MIL comes on, it will blink to give you the DTC if you jump it right.
- Retension it. Simple but a pain in the ass.
Secondly, My injector O rings (on the manifold side) are screwed up causing some serious vacuum leak.
- If you smell gas then the O-rings are fubared, otherwise the leak is elsewhere. If it's the O-rings, simply drop by ACE Hardware and pick up some new ones.
Exhaust leak on the manifold... aparently my turbo manifold has become warped, perhaps from me taking it on and off so much.... it now leaks fairly bad.
- Manifold wouldn't warp from simply unistalling it. If you believe the flange to be warped, simply remove it, check the trueness of it. If it's not in spec, simply slap it up against a grinding wheel or however you want to go about it.
Car bucks and hessitates... this may be due to the vacuum leak. I am not sure. I put the old stock injectors, and it cleared this problem up..... Once I put the RC 310's in again. It started again. *shrug*
- If the stock injectors cure the problem, leave 'em in until you fix the rest of this shit.
Leaky return line...
- Run over to Amazon Hose and get a new one.
I can't seem to get the car to idle well... the head makes serious noises if I move the valve lash to stock cam specs, and the car doesn't seem to run right
- Make sure your cam timing is right.
The check engine light comes on, does not blink if you jump the ECU to trap a code.
- Sure you're jumping the service connector and not something else? If the MIL comes on, it will blink to give you the DTC if you jump it right.
