Greengiant

Hi guys! I guess it’s time for me to make it official and join your forum rather than skulking in the shadows for the last year. A year ago I bought a 2001 and in my excitement I did not do my due diligence And unfortunately bought a car that needed an engine rebuild. The Honda dealership pull the engine and they found a metal shavings in the oil…Very quickly I discovered you need a small fortune to rebuild these engines so I saved up for a year now here I am.

Here is where I hope to get your advice as I’ve called about eight Engine re-manufacturing shops and nobody will touch this engine. The Honda dealership I took it to could not even locate an engine rebuild kit. But they found a company called AAA engine? Has anybody heard of this company? And know if they are legit? I I’ve seen them on eBay. Has anybody else had experience with rebuilding the F20c engine? What did you have to do? I know practically nothing about cars and don’t have time to be able to do any of this work myself. Thank you for reading and hope everyone is well during these interesting times

shane

Bseriously

I would just get a factory assembled used long block, especially if you're relying on some random engine building shop to do this for you.

Chuck S

Good luck! Few successful engine "rebuilds" have been reported here. Complete engine from a donor car is probably the best choice unless you want to put a completely different engine in the car like Honda K24 or GM LS. Rumors of available long and short blocks abound but are just rumors. The labor involved in swapping in a donor engine is minimal compared to pulling, rebuilding, and reinstalling the engine. There are videos all over YouTube of this being done in some guys garage at home.

Used engines are common on Ebay.

-- Chuck

FrenchyK

I was in your shoes about 5 years ago & I decided to buy a used AP2 engine from someone & it worked out great for me. I have literally zero engine issues now but the used engine prices were at least half of the prices
that I'm seeing online now. It would be hard for me not to seriously entertain the k-series engine but let us know what you end up doing.

Chuck S

As even used parts dry up prices increase. Witness the $1000 AP1 front lower spoilers that folks are happy to buy.

-- Chuck

sdosmil77

I cant see myself ordering a 1000 spoiler. Rather put that money toward the block/ head that i have extra because im boosted

Car Analogy

Good advice here but your actual question still hasn't been answered.

I've never heard of AAA e gine rebuilders, but it sounds like a giant company that does generic rebuilds. Kinda like how alternators, starters, calipers are rebuilt.

So they're just going to do what they'd do on any other engine, which is proven not to work with this engine. Their rebuild won't last.

Going to someplace like this is the absolute last thing you should do. I take that back, last thing makes it sound like its still on the list, just in last place. This doesn't deserve a place.

Even the vaunted Inline Pro has had difficulty at times with rebuilds on these engines. But that seems like your only real choice for a rebuild.

If the crank is good, and if cylinder walls aren't overly scored or ovaled, a rebuild, by a specialist like Inline Pro, remains a viable option. Some disassembly would be required to find out if that is the case.