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"the driving style is being evaluated as teh car is spending more time in my garage then it does on teh road."
You just answered your own first question.
Before you go bolting on more parts, there is some reading about engines that you need to do first. Putting new rings in an old block that has not been bored and honed may not seat the rings correctly at all, leaving you with much less that stock compression. The cross-hatched pattern on the cylinder walls that the hone leaves actually wears in the surfaces of the rings, essentially shaping the rings to local irregularities on the cylinder walls. New rings in cylinder bores which have already had the shart corners worn off the hone marks (happens in under 100 miles, probably less than 50) will not 'seat' the rings right. It may work, but will take a long time to seat the rings, or it may not work at all.
You are also (I think) working on some bad information. If the block is out of the car and apart, you should be able to get it bored and honed for not more than $200, I think when Lesco did my engine about 4 years ago that the machining portion was actually not that expensive (I think bore and hone was about $150 from them).
My goal with this motor was also to make it reliable, so I had a lot of other things done as well. I would at the very least have the block hot tanked to clear out the oil and coolant passages from any obstructions, replace bearings, and have all the dimensions (main bearing journals, deck smoothness, cylinder check) checked before it goes back in the car.
Lastly, there are lots of experienced people here who are more than willing to supply their experiences, but generally speaking there are no people on "teh" board who drive "teh" wicked Hondas. With very few exceptions all of our Saabs are daily drivers, and very few people go through motors like you have managed to do. I only blew up one, and I am sticking by my accusation as to it being the previous owner's fault, but another story. You will want to do lots of evaluating as to why you chose a Saab, because they will not take to being beat on like the sport compact crowd is used to doling out on their cars (my buddy with a 380whp supercharged Prelude would powershift into 3rd to break the tires loose, car was awesome, but I could not get over how much he trusted the transmission). Anyways, if you want to go drifting and drag race on the strees every weekend, this is probably not the car for you. Our cars need a little more love than that.
Best,
Drew
posted by 199.74.9...
, Tue, 15 May 2007 07:46:25
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