Just a few pics of the inside of my engine...

[User Name]

While I have the engine apart, I couldn't help but snap a few pics for my desktop wallpaper. Don't exactly know why, but mechanical things just make me smile

[Ammadien]

nice.


Nate

[hondajunkie]

Nice Pics.
Looks Clean,real Clean.

[Sevbo]

thats cool. i have a screensaver that switches pics every 30 seconds and i have a bunch of pics of engines, mostly cars but a few bikes, along with alot of other stuff

[flash84x]

Originally Posted by hondajunkie

Nice Pics.
Looks Clean,real Clean.

too clean

[User Name]

Trust me, they weren't that clean when I pulled the thing apart. Considering the effort it took to get it all opened up, I figured it was worth some effort to clean it out. I gained quite a hatred of carbon deposits in the process. The funny thing is, I was worried it still wasn't clean enough. Yep, I'm pretty anal... Have 6 more exhaust valves to clean and I can start putting 'er back together.

[bdrushto]

Damn, wish I had the balls to pull apart an engine like that. I get nervous enough on a top end for the 2 strokers.

[User Name]

Ehhhh... have manual, will disassemble The engine isn't really all that far apart, I'd be a little more cautious cracking the case open, this is nothing. I did have to laugh when a friend stopped by and, seeing just the valve cover off, said "Wow, I've never seen an engine this far apart before!!" He looked a little bewildered when I busted out laughing!!

My father was a mechanic and owned a garage for a number of years, and he taught my brothers and I how to work on our cars, so I've never been too apprehensive about mechanical work. It'll all go back together... I hope...

[hybrid]

Man you are one patient mofo...........

I might offer up a bit of advice though..........something I learned the hard way.

You should stop trying to beat the carbon deposits. You wont win.

The days of people saying "Port and POLISH" were seriously flawed. Even I used to think that polishing stuff was the right way. That is until I bet one of my bosses that it worked.

We built two identicle engines...............I polished the piston tops, combustion chambers, ports and blah blah blah blah.............seriously I went fucking nuts on it.

He roughed everything up.........

We did our normal dyno break in procedures and took base line readings on power and then proceeded to bring them into tune..........

Do you know what the difference was? Its not a horsepower thing either.....they made about the same power.......equatable to being to seperate engines.............the difference was that I had to fucking tune my engine about 16 times...........and he only had to do his 3 or 4 times.

Why? Thats what I was about to learn.

The engine that accepts the carbon easily is the one that stabilizes easily.

Carbon WILL STICK no matter what you do...............You can polish something till the cows come home. The acidic byproducts of combustion will allow carbon to stick eventually.

Carbon does two things...............It closes tolerances and it insulates.

So the guy who gets his engine to "stabilize" sooner is the one who will be more consistant. He will hit his "tune" sooner.

Anyways............its not a bad thing to be super clean and doing a great inspection...........but dont let it be the end all be all.

Like I said, I learned the hard way............I lost 200 bucks and a days worth of time. Ill never polish ports or anything in a combustion chamber again.

[User Name]

Originally Posted by hybrid

Man you are one patient mofo...........

If there's one thing I have in abundance, it's patients. Plus, it's winter, about 10 degrees outside and I have nothing else to do, so what the hell, huh? Aside from making sure the valves seat well, I didn't clean it with any real performance gains in mind. I know it'll collect again, I've just always had a thing for returning stuff to like-new condition. Now when I button 'er all back up, I know it'll be good for at least another 30,000 miles. Plus, I needed a few photos to hang on my empty walls!

About porting and polishing, I remember something my father told me from his drag racing days. Something about the smooth surfaces of polished ports and pistons allowing the atomized fuel to collect, or maybe it was that the rougher non-polished surfaces gave more surface area for the fuel to re-evaporate from, or something to that effect. Whatever it was, he said the gains were negligible. He said the best thing you could do to an engine was balance and blueprint it. Maybe I'll do that the next time I have the engine out, but truth be told, it's plenty fast enough for my needs as it is.

[hybrid]

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[Krazy Hawaiian]

Originally Posted by User Name

If there's one thing I have in abundance, it's patients. Plus, it's winter, about 10 degrees outside and I have nothing else to do, so what the hell, huh? Aside from making sure the valves seat well, I didn't clean it with any real performance gains in mind. I know it'll collect again, I've just always had a thing for returning stuff to like-new condition. Now when I button 'er all back up, I know it'll be good for at least another 30,000 miles. Plus, I needed a few photos to hang on my empty walls!

About porting and polishing, I remember something my father told me from his drag racing days. Something about the smooth surfaces of polished ports and pistons allowing the atomized fuel to collect, or maybe it was that the rougher non-polished surfaces gave more surface area for the fuel to re-evaporate from, or something to that effect. Whatever it was, he said the gains were negligible. He said the best thing you could do to an engine was balance and blueprint it. Maybe I'll do that the next time I have the engine out, but truth be told, it's plenty fast enough for my needs as it is.

A slightly rough surface on the intake will create a slight turbulence that helps keep the fuel atomized better so fuel droplets don't fall out of suspension.



Nice pictures by the way!

[Choco]

^+1.....

looks new, and very good shots

[bengal]

good way to pass the cold winter days!!!