Monjarassi's 2004 civic si turbo build thread

[Frostydc5]

I've been in your footsteps many times man. Ive had 2 built motors both took a shit on me 500 and 700 miles only on them. Hadn't even gotten to mess around and do any pulls. I say build you an engine put that HR timing chain tensioner on it and give it one more go

s4 IG-petefromthestreets

NO,big no on the HR TCT might just be me but i know too may horror stories with those damn things. i know a lot of people use them with no issues but it only takes a few horror stories for me to say no.

[monjarassi]

I've been in your footsteps many times man. Ive had 2 built motors both took a shit on me 500 and 700 miles only on them. Hadn't even gotten to mess around and do any pulls. I say build you an engine put that HR timing chain tensioner on it and give it one more go

s4 IG-petefromthestreets

Yea man im still brain storming and dont wanna give up. But we all have our limits..

NO,big no on the HR TCT might just be me but i know too may horror stories with those damn things. i know a lot of people use them with no issues but it only takes a few horror stories for me to say no.

Confused ur against the HR tct

[Frostydc5]

Yea man im still brain storming and dont wanna give up. But we all have our limits..



Confused ur against the HR tct

I know a lot of pole use it with no issues, but I met two people personally who had issues one of them had 3 of them literally break to pieces and shred his motor after the 3rd one he went back to oem never to have issues again.
Maybe it was just bad luck and granted this was a little while ago so maybe it was the first batch of the ones HR made, but I'm just that guy that some scary shit like that will keep me away from something, unless it's completely unavoidable ill stick to oem.


On a side note, i agree with what you said about we all have out limits, I only ever tell people in your situation one thing and that is make the car run again before you decide to get out of it. That way you never look back and say "damn I should have fixed it" so you know you got out of the game on a positive note. Just my .02 cents

[monjarassi]

i hear ya man

[monjarassi]

Day 1 of the tear down!!

[Frostydc5]

Day 1 of the tear down!!

damn at this rate shit will be running in no time

[PetefromtheStreets]

damn at this rate shit will be running in no time

Homie don't play no games. Lol

s4 IG-petefromthestreets

[aLmk]

Are you going to pull it out the top I assume? What is your plan with the motor? Rebuild this one? Or put a new stock one in?

[monjarassi]

Day 2 of teardown

Looks like the block is still good and no bent valves!!!

cylinder head











shortblock













the parts bin

[monjarassi]

Are you going to pull it out the top I assume? What is your plan with the motor? Rebuild this one? Or put a new stock one in?

no stock one for sure...

And through the top of course!!!