I have been a little out of the K series loop since selling my old car and just sort of dove back into it with a K24Z1.
I have a friend that acquired a K24Z1 that had been hydrolocked, but still ran before being removed from the vehicle. I got the engine apart to find the #4 rod bent. Other than that, everything practically looked brand new, the engine is pretty dang clean. Apparently, this happened with the engine earlier in it's life, so therefore the engine is a lower mileage piece. The story we were told is that the hydrolocking happened, the vehicle was taken into the dealership where they changed the oil 6 times to get the water out of the engine. The engine still ran, but not as it should and so the customer brought it back. Thats when the engine was replaced....blah blah blah....
pic of said bent rod:
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So here are my questions. I knew from reading on here before that some people liked the CRV cylinder heads. They were reported to flow pretty well. Can the same be said for K24Z1 cylinder head? I do not have the head sitting in front of me, but I think it is a RAA casting and the CRV heads that people liked were PPA castings. Even though they are different casting codes how much different are the ports and what not?
Also, if we do the K20 cam swap and put in the vtec cams is there anything different we should do? Are the rockers different in this engine or whats the deal in that area? I have been doing some searching and reading around and it seems as if I have found some discrepancies amongst the information on swapping in the cams and rockers from another engine.
We plan on doing a turbo build on this K24Z1 and we also plan on keeping this head on there instead of swapping it.
If you want to share any info about the K24Z1 post it up. I know there was one thread started about them, but I guess two threads will not hurt.
I have a friend that acquired a K24Z1 that had been hydrolocked, but still ran before being removed from the vehicle. I got the engine apart to find the #4 rod bent. Other than that, everything practically looked brand new, the engine is pretty dang clean. Apparently, this happened with the engine earlier in it's life, so therefore the engine is a lower mileage piece. The story we were told is that the hydrolocking happened, the vehicle was taken into the dealership where they changed the oil 6 times to get the water out of the engine. The engine still ran, but not as it should and so the customer brought it back. Thats when the engine was replaced....blah blah blah....
pic of said bent rod:
So here are my questions. I knew from reading on here before that some people liked the CRV cylinder heads. They were reported to flow pretty well. Can the same be said for K24Z1 cylinder head? I do not have the head sitting in front of me, but I think it is a RAA casting and the CRV heads that people liked were PPA castings. Even though they are different casting codes how much different are the ports and what not?
Also, if we do the K20 cam swap and put in the vtec cams is there anything different we should do? Are the rockers different in this engine or whats the deal in that area? I have been doing some searching and reading around and it seems as if I have found some discrepancies amongst the information on swapping in the cams and rockers from another engine.
We plan on doing a turbo build on this K24Z1 and we also plan on keeping this head on there instead of swapping it.
If you want to share any info about the K24Z1 post it up. I know there was one thread started about them, but I guess two threads will not hurt.
