Hello again everyone, glad to still see the forum going strong.
I've not been on for a while, but i thought i'd post an update after spending the best part of 3-bloody-thousand-pounds on a 10 year old Honda.
After experiencing endless problems with starting the car up from hot (after filling up with fuel, for example), burning 2 litres of oil per month and using a similar amount of coolant, i decided to bite the bullet, book the car into Performance Autoworks and spend some serious money to get the engine back to peak condition after 106,000 miles. Here's a video of how it was running (cold start and misfiring
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It ran ok when warmed up and VTEC was still working quite well despite the problems it had (apologies for the poor sound quality) :
The clutch was also playing up at low speeds, so i also decided on buying an H22 ACT 5.8kg Flywheel and stage 1 ACT clutch (at a additional cost of £590). Here is the invoice, for those of you who are thinking of getting similar work done on an old Type R lump.
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The car is running well now. It has only used 100ml of engine oil in the last 1300 miles and pulls nice and strong in all gears. I'm hoping that full/most compression has been restored and hoping that it's running at least 225bhp now. Recent pic :
Thanks for reading.