Anyone know any decent engine builders/machine shops in the area? Looking to get my new motor properly assembled and could use some direction. Thanks for your time and consideration.

 

inlinepro in Springfield, PTuning in Manassas, ISP in Laurel

 

Danny, did you buy the built head? JE Import Performance on Pulaski H'way is currently working on my S. Give them a call at (410) 686-5111 ask for Chris or James(owner). GL

 

I have experience building engines proffessionaly, and on the side. I am ASE and Honda certified in Engine repair. My previous car before I had the S2000 was a turbo integra. I completely tore apart the block/head and rebuilt it all from the ground up. Aside from machine work and tuning, I pretty much did everything myself. The setup was pretty nasty.

-B18B Block
-Darton MID Ductile Iron Sleeves
-81mm Bore
-Align Honed
-CP 9:1 forged pistons
-Manley Rods
-Balanced and micropolished crank
-B16A Head and ITR valvetrain
-3 Angle valve job
-Bronze valve guides
-Port Match on intake and exhaust sides

(this was two years ago- i know there are some really sick ass turbo hondas being built nowadays, but back then, my setup was pretty nice).

Assembly was a meticulously precision job which took about 15 hours. I measured everything twice. Plastiguaged the rod and main bearings, measured crankshaft endplay, clearanced the rings, and torqued everything to spec.

the end product resulted in a perfectly reliable 330 HP turbo integra which only broke down once. (electrical issue). other than that, no problems for a full year (I sold the car a year after i built it). I drove the shit out of it at 15psi on a 60trim for a full year with no problems whatsoever. . .towards the end I was sort of waiting for it to blow.

If it's assembly you need, I can definitly help you out. I have a very good machine shop that I take everything to. If you're interested, let me know what kind of build you had in mind.

 

Danny, is that you??

 

yeah it is!

 

Word up!

 

Uhm, not exactly confidence-instilling in your abilities as a builder...

 

James at Je import in Baltimore

 

uhm, im 100% confident in my work. all im saying is that for the engine that i built to still have 170psi compression accross the board and less than a 2% leakage rate after a year of driving the piss out of it on high boost at 8500rpm is pretty impressive. the rod and main bearings only showed signs of wear for an engine with about 20k on it.

built engine or not. . .high boost and high revving on a frequent basis increases the rate at which internal engine parts wear out. i was just surprised to see the engine hold up as well as it did. all of my other buddies with boosted hondas were cracking sleeves, lifting heads, dropping valves and burning pistons.

towards the end i was just bored with it. either throwing more boost at it with a better turbo setup, or selling it were my options. . .i would have been totally fine with it blowing up. destruction is awesome.

any builder has had an engine blow up sometime or other, it's just bound to happen. that is how we learn what not to do. whether it be a failed part, builder error, or poor tuning, you move one and rebuild.