Dont change your oil....

[Ankur]

and it will look like this!!! http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1230050 I didnt take the pic. enjoy...

 

[Pablo]

yeah that's sick - but what the heck is Bror Jace doing over there? Slaming Amsoil ! Just pipe 'em over here kids!

 

[NJC]

That's horrible! Never seen one that bad

 

[wavinwayne]

Ahhhhhhh.....another Quaker State sludger.....j/k

 

[Ankur]

hehe. I bet this was 20k oil changes with dino. Probably getting around 20 hp to the wheels also

 

[ARH_0700]

The sad part is that the engine actually looks fairly new. What a waste

 

[Mamala Bay]

Wonder if Auto-RX would help!

 

[medic]

I kinda like what this guy says. I would ove to see a UOA from his engine.

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OMG that's horrible. Although I haven't changed the oil in the new civic for 12,000 so far, got another 13,000 to go before it's changed. But the filter will be changed every 7,500. Synthetics are great.

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[KW]

I rebuild motors pretty often and to find a motor like that is more the norm than not. I'd say about 90% of the ones I pull apart are gunked up like that. I honestly believe the average Joe never changes their oil. I'm doing up a 4.3 V6 now for a buddy of mine and the nasty tar stuff was like a jelly mold under the valve covers. It's so nasty! I assume the oil was so dirty that it became abrasive, it had to go .060 over to clean the bores up and the timing chain was so loose I could almost remove it with out pulling the gears.

 

[VaderSS]

Course, when I cut my teeth on engine work, back in the mid eighties, even a 3-4k oil change engine was pretty gunked up. I was pleasantly suprised when I pulled the valvecovers on the Impala and found everything to have only a light coat of varnish on everything. Course, it has had 2 ARx treatments and a steady diet of LC...

 

[Chris142]

Looks like the cam lobes held up.

 

[OriginHacker21]

Wow. I didn't know engines could still run like that?!

 

[pastmaster]

Gang, Engines that look like this or worse, are the rule, not the exception. It's a tribute to the ability of many engines to withstand such abuse...Glad it ain't mine.

 

[Jason8691]

I bet he's got $5k worth of stereo equipment in that thing tho.

 

[milwaukee]

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Originally posted by Ankur: probably getting around 20 hp to the wheels also

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Isn't that about stock?

 

[Dan4510]

No its 15.5hp stock, 20hp with a brrrp-can muffler and a wing. Turbo decals add another .2hp. Ricer forever!!!! Dan

 

[Shannow]

I loved the "steering feel" that was evident with the pin and slot steering at speed.