Is it really necessary to hone cylinders when replacing pistons and rings. I was planning on replacing the pistons with something a little more high comp. and total seal gapless rings, unless anyone can give me a reason not too. Also, since the rods will be out of the car, how difficult is it to install new rod bearings? i imagine installing them will not be hard, but don’t you have to measure oil clearances for every bearing?
Thanks in advance for any info.
the cylinders really should be honed, it will help the rings seat better.
i’ve heard that you should stay away from total seal rings. I’m not sure why exactly they aren’t ideal. But everyone here i’ve seen talk about rings suggests to stick w/ oem honda.
ok, I will probably go with OEM then. I just thought for performance that the total seal were better… or maybe I will get something a little stronger for NOS…what you think?
OEM is adequate. I haven’t heard the best about total seal as well. You can’t go wrong with the OEM.
use OEM
Total Seal are completely worthless rings. Absolute garbage, from personal experience.
Also, for the best seal, go over bore. Honing is nice, but overbore will give you a better chance to hit the piston to wall clearances dead on…
What is the difference Daniel?
ok, that answers that question, but what do you guys think about replacing the rod bearings with the engine still in the car, just dropping the oil pan? Has anyone done this, or even attempted it? The reason I think I need to is because when I crank the car in the mornings, the oil light is on for about 2 secs. That makes me think it takes a little too long to build pressure. What do you guys think? Or maybe it is something related to the oil pump? Any input would be appreciated. Just for the history, the car is a 92 LS with 130,000 miles, which I now run synthetic oil in with the NAPA gold filter.