check out my engine

hi guys,

im new to the boards and also new to the honda scene.

i just purchased a complete sohc zc engine from k watanabe or kwc.com

when i disassembled the engine it looked kind of weird but im not sure if the engine really suppose to look like that.

can you guys pls check the engine out. i have some pix in imagestation.

here's the link:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4287398141

under "join imagestation.." there's a link, just click it and it will ask for a username and password.

user: b15nissan
pass: b15nissan

i hope you guys can help me out. thanks in advance.

ok from the pics, the motor looks dirty real dirty. i purchased a motor (b16) from a local shop here in puerto rico, it was imported from japan and the motor inside looked like new, if u find any residew or little pieces of metal or corotion then the engien is bad, clean the motor up and then take more pics(more than one) from diferent angles. because the pic u took makes it a little difucult to tell.

any suggestions how to clean it up? should i take everything out? i mean take the crankshaft off, piston, rods, disassemble everything? only problem is im not too familiar putting it all back together, especially the cams...

and what do you mean bad? its not gonna work?

id dissasemble it and clean it up real good, have the block hot tanked n such. they sent u a 5spd tranny and u have a flex plate on that block?

yeah...i was wondering about that too...the flex plate is the plate with a lot of holes right? the screws that holds it says at...i should take that out right?

someone wanna post the pics here?? i tried the website and it says there is no such album

try this

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4287386173

this might work better...but only some of the pix.

http://www.thezcresource.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=899&password=

It all looks pretty normal. what I would do is clean it put new rings in have the valves done new vgaskeys slap it in and go.

That looks normal? I must have purchased a clean as hell engine then...

Man if you ask me, that motor looks like piss. The head is so dirty underneath the vavle cover. Looks like the previous owner didnt use syntetic oil or something. Also, do I see corosion or something in piston #1? I'd give that motor a good cleaning before firing it up.

Its not bad, ive had better, as well as worse... you can clean it all up with stripper/acid and then replace the rings and gaskets