Honda Update November 2009

Here's what we found and what we've done so far. One valve--an intake on cyl #2--got dinged by the piston. The question is, did it get that way from the timing belt slipping or did another malfunction that made parts come loose cause the valve to jam and the timing to jump?

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 1990
• Honda
• Prelude
• 2.0
• fuel
• injected
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• timing
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• uxwbill
• bizzarefurhead

[Seanzee666]

I used to know a guy who made quite a bit of money on replacing head gaskets (a really common problem from poor maintenance and over expectation of the car's performance) in his town. He used to machine them by using a drill motor with a sander on it and very carefully removing material from the surface so it could be placed back on the car. Not necessarily as accurate as a machine, but, if done with patience, will yield good results. (IE, he never had a complaint)

[uxwbill]

@Seanzee666 I'll bet it did take a lot of patience and skill to do that. I could have the patience, but I don't know about the skill.

[alphazeta1255]

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[uxwbill]

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[snivesz32]

You're making it hard on yourself by doing that in the car. It'd be way easier to pull the engine.

[gbowne1]

The only guy I would send heads to are John @ Costa Mesa R&D. He's a youtube user. Does excellent work. look at the channel fiatnutz

[ChiefLeftenant]

Surprisingly there is alot of thought and careful planing that goes into making Japanese cars. When you start working at Honda, Toyota, etc. (even if you have an engineering degree) you start at the bottom and in a few years get to the position you want to be in. IE you start sweeping floors move onto final assembly. eventually you get to the point where you actually assemble and build the engine, Trans, Diff, etc. Everyone who designs the cars has hands on Built the car.

[LordSamuelJ]

I never had any luck with Honda. Ive owned 4 motorcycles that all went to bike heaven for various different reasons. Then I had a Honda Del sol that I had to junk after the gear box grenaded on me.

[grawey77]

honda's variable intake system my guess

[Seanzee666]

@uxwbill honestly I don't know that he really put a huge amount of effort into it because it would be a lot like buffing out a scratch I would imagine. So, if you do try it, I would just make sure you don't focus on one spot for too long so the surface stays even because all you're doing with the machining is taking away a fraction of an inch to make sure the surface is "fresh." Which is similar to polishing.