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Engine is built ! Yay Got a friend who's a toolmaker at a local engineering shop to make me a stretch gauge So I could do the Conrod bolts to Honda specs . New shels going in Along with new rings Conrod bolts being stretched Oil pump on , wich was striped and cleaned then oiled...

Could anyone confirm the torque setting for Conrod bolts please

I'll inspect the oil pump and lube it up when I recive it , thanks for the heads up on that . The Honda manual only covers the b18c5 engine so torque specs for that ?

Those where my kinda thoughts on arp bolts too , engine will be staying relatively stock with only breathing mods . And yeah haha although I was open to do anything the engine needed doing from the start , turns out that's all it needed .

Back on the engine build again , got the block back from the engine shop after much discussion with the engine shop guy he just gave the cylinder walls a light honeing as that's all they needed , he acuratley measured each one and found no ovaling and a true 81mm top to bottom on all 4 . I tried...

thanks for your advice man ,as i want it to be as smoke free as possible i think ill go for a rebore and o/s factory pistons i would hate to put it back together and find out it still burns oil . i plan on going on trackdays with it when its done so needs to be spot on !

The bores seemed really good condition for the miles , one thing I noticed was no obvious cross hatching visible , should I be seeing some ?

Thanks for the responses guys ,after waiting for space in the garage for a month I got the engine out and striped down this weekend .from comparing measurements to factory specifications I found that my piston ring gaps are way out , almost double the maximum gap Bore size seems to be spot on to...

hi all going to be rebuilding my b18c from my 1996 dc2 soon due to it using about a litre every 500miles and heavy smoke occasionally on vtec and more on overun .car is just coming up to 200k in kilometres,so think its due a refresh . a couple months ago i replaced the valvestem seals to see if...