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"Carried Away" is my middle name!Lol yeah think we got a little caried away but what ever it's all in good fun.
Everybody did dumb shit when starting out, and have the stories and scars to prove it. Some of us are old enough to talk about it - survivors - learned the hard way. Appreciate you sharing that - sorry you got hurt that bad.i know what you mean there, mr. 500. i used to do stupid shit in the garage, like drive up on a couple of blocks of wood in my turbo (turdo?) celica, while it was running, with a broken e-brake cable, because i was too lazy to jack it up and support it the right way... broke both my wrists that time.... or gringing some shit down with no safety glasses and slicing half my righ index finger off... i am a little older, and a lot wiser (safety-wise anyway) and know that if I get hurt because I was lazy, it can mean alot of trouble for the kids and wife... safety first indeed!!!
Without going back and reading your entire thread, I'm making an assumption here based on that one post that you haven't sleeved the block yet. If you're running the stock sleeve, you can't bore out to 84mm- there won't be anything left! Go just .5mm over and you'll be fine. Actually, if you haven't bought your pistons yet (hopefully not since you're still talking about bore size), find out how much cleanup you need to do on the cylinder walls and then buy the smallest pistons that will fit. Since you can't go to 84mm, 81.5 isn't really going to gain you much over 81. Keep your walls thicker- just add more boost if you want more power. If you can run with 81mm pistons, just stick with them.
For E85, you'll have to make sure your whole fuel system is updated to handle the different stuff going through it- fuel lines, pump etc. I don't know how well OE Honda stuff holds up to ethanol based fuel. You'll also want to toss your 440s and get something larger. E85's ideal air/fuel ratio is quite a bit richer than gasoline- it's around 10:1 as opposed to 14.7:1. To properly burn the same amount of mixture, you'll need to pump a LOT more fuel into your combustion chamber. E85 is also less energy dense than straight gasoline, so you'll have to run a LOT more through your engine for the same amount of power. For your 250-300whp goal, I'd just stick to gas. It's a lot easier.