Nice work, good to see you are moving right along. And I'm sorry, thats funny as hell. I can only imagine the obscenities flowing out of your garage.

 

DONE!


Got it all finished yesterday morning, cranked right over and purrs like a kitten.
well except for the exhaust leak somewhere..

Total Cost- $1,467.69

Breakdown (all parts OEM)
Head Redone- $700
Gasket Set and Head Bolts from LCE- $202.90
Injector Seats- $28.28
Oil Pump Cover- $45.03
Oil Pickup Tube- $64.56
Oil Pressure release valve- $6.23
FIPG- $18.50
Belts- $26.76
Thermostat- $19.90
Water Pump- $107.54
Dist. Cap/Rotor- $51.19
Plug Wires- $60.31
Witchhunter Injector Cleaning- $83.22
Miscellaneous Nuts/Bolts- $50

Im about $120 in mistakes that could have been avoided such as running over the oil pickup tube and breaking the oil pump cover, but live and learn i guess!

 

Very nice. Pretty quick turnaround for everything.

 

thanks man, i was pretty happy with the time cosidering this is my first HG job and had to wait a for the head/special order parts

 

Head redone, did that include a valve job too, or just resurface and cleaned?? all in all, you did a damn fine job, pat yourself on the back and go have a beer on me!!!

 

i was going to tell you...uhhhmm...dude....you forgot to put your cams back in your head...

but i see you already started it...so all is good LOL deceiving pics bro LMAO

 

looks real good man. Good idea leaving the parts list with cost for others to see. Lets meet up and wheel bro!

 

the $700 in head work was-

Cleaning/glassbeading
Resurfacing
Valve grind
Valve adjustment
New valve stem seals (came in the LCE gasket set)
Pressure test

 

Nice job man !!!

 

This reminds me of my first teardown, 3RZ also.

Someone adjusted the valves wrong (PO took it to somewhere unknown for 90k tune up)
10K later, all of the casting between my valves were spider cracked, and the valves had pretty much no dap left. At least you didn't need a whole new head lol but its lookin good!

 

ok so my cast iron POS manifold was upsetting me, so i picked up the Nix99 mini-header kit.

 

nice man!

 

Ok now ive got a slight concern.
I finally took her up to redline today and when i did i got a strange noise i haven't heard before.

Around 4300+ RPM my engine bay starts making a terrible noise like there is a honda with a fartcan under the hood. If anyone is familiar with VTec its sounds like it kicking in. Its not an exhuast leak and i cant find any rattles to think of. I do have the ISR mod but it didnt make this noise before the rebuild so why would it do it now?

Any opinions are welcome!

 

So for another $600 you could of bought a brand new 2.7 long block, and avoided all that work. My head gasket blew at 160,000, and just decided to buy a new motor. The engine runs awesome after 30,000 miles, but the only problem now is that everything else needs to be changed out.