5thGenAccord
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For the few that know me and my car on this site I thought I would let you know whats been going on since I have been MIA for along time. I have been sooo damn busy with work and now school I have been neglecting thing I love most cars. Oh well, enough with my BS excuses. I killed my H22 on my way home this evening. I guess its not really dead it just doesn't idle. So after I a few quick emails to a couple of people around the country, the diagnosis's is bent valves DOH!!!! I was driving the car hard like I always do in certain areas around town (mostly on-ramps) well I usually take this on-ramp in third. Well I got the great idea of trying it out in second (BAD IDEA). Anywayz I have all 8k dialed in on this on-ramp (around 60 plus). I come out of the turn on to the straight freeway with my foot buried and before I'm thinking straight, check engine light comes on and I shift (should have shifted about 3 secs earlier). I'm thinking O great what did I do now? I have power I have VTEC, the damn check engine light is a lieing bastard. Well pull up to a stop sign, stop, car dies. SOB start again dies instantly. I manage through start and death to pull the car into a parking lot and a parking place. I havn't gotten the code for the check engine light yet so I will check it out. But most likely I have 16 nicely bent valves and I upgraded the valvetrain when I redid the head on this car. Now I'm paying for it in the end 
should have bought JUN valvesprings and retainers, but no I wanted to save a few bucks. Just goes to show you that cheaping out on head parts ends up costing more money. All and all I'm pissed at my self for being a stupid idiot, I am a good driver (at least I think so LOL). I guess I won't get to autocross the car like I wanted too this month. But, I should be back bigger and better next year if everything goes right (which it never does). Even though I think its valves I just got an e-mail that says it might be the timeing belt jumped a tooth (I can only hope), dout this is the case though.
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should have bought JUN valvesprings and retainers, but no I wanted to save a few bucks. Just goes to show you that cheaping out on head parts ends up costing more money. All and all I'm pissed at my self for being a stupid idiot, I am a good driver (at least I think so LOL). I guess I won't get to autocross the car like I wanted too this month. But, I should be back bigger and better next year if everything goes right (which it never does). Even though I think its valves I just got an e-mail that says it might be the timeing belt jumped a tooth (I can only hope), dout this is the case though. !RANT ENDS!
