Recent content by F8L BYT

Alright guys here is the update... After being dicked around with a couple of different engines for sale from flaky sellers, I bought a head from a guy instead. The head is a 1.5 vtec head and my engine is non vtec if you recall. So what do I need to do and what head gasket do I need to use to...

car has ~98k miles Thanks man I'll let ya know if i need them or not. Right now I'm thinking about just re-seating the head machine the bottom and replace the valves and valve seals and hope that fixes it I would love to swap for another d15 but the only issue I have with that is buying...

Well got the head off to see what happened and the pistons look fine from what I can tell but it was definitely the valves... What are your guys opinions on what I should do? Here is the number 4 cyl. Looks like antifreez was in this one but I dont understand how? Before it happened it...

Just did a leakdown test and as I suspected number 3 cylinder was completely dead... All others were good. Im going to pull the head off tomorrow and check to see the damage. Hopefully its a burnt valve which Im pretty sure it is I didnt see the smoke because it was night time... Thanks for...

I didnt do a compression/leakdown yet because it happened late last night and I didnt feel like messing with it. Im going to do one today. I'll post up the results later. I was driving normal down the interstate at about 65mph What I did was hooked up a prod and poked each wire while the...

Well first I would like to say hello and it seems like this is a cool site and a lot of good information, I don't know much about Honda's as I am long time Mustang guy but I enjoy any well built car and not brand specific. Anyway onto my dilemma. I have a 94 civic with the 1.5 non-vtec...