If you have a cold air intake and you see a puddle DO NOT attempt to drive through it as you may misjudge the actual depth of the puddle and suck water into your motor ultimately making it choke itself to death.
So yeah my little brother went to Canadian Tire (oh the irony) and when he left it had rained quite heavily. There was an unassuming puddle that ‘didnt’ look deep so the 240 trucked right through it until the engine began to spudder then chug and finally die. After some water evacuation out of the intake and combustion chambers the engine roared to life. Unfortunately the 2.4L was not the same, a loud ticking had developed.
A compression test was done and it revealed nothing serious, number 4 was low at 120psi but other than that it still ran so as I searched for a replacement motor my bro drove the car around when he had no other choice. Unfortunately, what was first diagnosed as bent valves was probably a spun bearing. So benounced to him the motor was a ticking time bomb. Well 2 days after this whole incident the motor had had enough. It didnt go without a bang though as it threw a rod through the side of the block.
Nevertheless, the pictures will do the talking. I hope you all enjoyed your long weekends cause me and my little bro had some good bonding time.
I gotta throw a shout out to Robby for lending us a hoist and Arslan for hooking us up with a great replacement KA.
I live in Toronto and my bro lives in windsor…no van or truck between the two of us means you have to improvise. Who said civcs dont rock!
A little cherry picker action to help extract the engine from the civic and we are good to go.
We can finally begin.
Out comes the old KA.
Oh no what is that I see…its a crank peeking out at me.
Tearing down the old motor. Since we got a 97 KA for the replacement, it had tons of emissions BS on it so we swapped over the lower intake manifold from the 95 and that was about it in terms of compatibility problems between the 2 engines.
We worked late into the night, our neigbours dont like us much.
The next day the motor is in.
I had to throw this photo in just because my middle brother looks like a homo. He rarely helps us out and since we needed a hand he decided to throw on some raggy ass clothes that he found downstairs in the basement…too bad the pants didnt do up. This is what he does best…stand around and smoke while we work.
Come evening we have everything hooked up and ready to go but the engine wont fire. Thats because I didnt place the distributor in properly and the marks were off, it would crank and backfire like a mofo. Once again the internet saves the day and I figure out that you have to line up cyl #1 at TDC and then insert the distributor with its marks lined up. We pack it in for the night.
We salvaged the head off the old motor. Unfortunately it bent the #4 valves as the piston kissed the head when it threw the rod out.
We werent about to swap the engine without adding a performance upgrade so a DC Sports header was installed.
All done! Monday morning.
All that was left was to return the engine hoist and test drive the car.
Holy shit this 240 is so fast your hair sticks up!
Well thats it. A nice weekends worth of work for a silly mistake. Not really a hard job by any means rather quite simple. We took our time and counted roughly 8 hours of work. The only casualty we suffered was a crushed power steering line but that was easily fixed.
The end
I will say the new motor pulls better but it could be the header. The dyno will be the real judge right Dan-o!
