Honda engineers do not wear hair nets.
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Myself, Joe (Rasputin314) and Mark (Lips2000) tore apart my old engine today, and we found what looks like hair in my engine.
Yup you heard me correct, we found two strands of hair in my engine. One was in the secondary oil filter, and the other was wrapped around a piston rod. It doesn't make sense, as you would think that they would have melted in the hot oil, but whatever they are, they didn't melt.
The engineer that put engine number F20C1-1012424 was having a bad hair day the day that he/she put my engine together
.It was very cool taking apart an F20C.
We learned alot about our awsome engine.
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Here is a picture of one of the hairs.
And here is a link to all of the pictures that we took while opening up my engine. While looking at these, remember that my engine only had 15,000 miles on it. I was very surprised at the amount of carbon build up on the valves and pistons.
Oh, and check out my number four cylinder wall. Pretty nasty eh?
And here is a link to all of the pictures that we took while opening up my engine. While looking at these, remember that my engine only had 15,000 miles on it. I was very surprised at the amount of carbon build up on the valves and pistons.
Oh, and check out my number four cylinder wall. Pretty nasty eh?
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Does anybody have any guesses as to what these strands of hair really are??? Maybe they were in oil that I added to the car? I don't know, but I thought it was unusual to find them inside my engine.
One other thing that I found interesting was all the carbon build up on the valves and the piston heads. That engine only had 15k miles on it. I realize that in 15k miles there has been millions of explosions inside the combustion chamber, but it looked like the engine had a 100k miles on it. The mechanic at the dealership that worked on my car was surprised too. He asked me what kid of gas I have been using, and I told him that I always use premium.
Also, the crank in our cars weighs a ton. I could see how one could significantly improve the performance of our engine by lightening the crank. I guess it would have to be made out of titanium or something really strong yet light. However possible, it could / would be a big performance help, our cranks weigh a ton; lightening it would save a lot of "moving weight".
One other thing that I found interesting was all the carbon build up on the valves and the piston heads. That engine only had 15k miles on it. I realize that in 15k miles there has been millions of explosions inside the combustion chamber, but it looked like the engine had a 100k miles on it. The mechanic at the dealership that worked on my car was surprised too. He asked me what kid of gas I have been using, and I told him that I always use premium.
Also, the crank in our cars weighs a ton. I could see how one could significantly improve the performance of our engine by lightening the crank. I guess it would have to be made out of titanium or something really strong yet light. However possible, it could / would be a big performance help, our cranks weigh a ton; lightening it would save a lot of "moving weight".
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Every F20 I have seen torn down has some carbon build up. I have to guess it is because it runs pretty rich much of the time.
A crank that will take the power this engine puts out at 9K cannot be a lightweight.. truthfully I have never seen a real light crankshaft.. that is where the energy has to turn the corner!
A crank that will take the power this engine puts out at 9K cannot be a lightweight.. truthfully I have never seen a real light crankshaft.. that is where the energy has to turn the corner!
