Honda Engine Porn

I was searching for images of storage shelves (yes, I get paid for this) and came across this site that is basically B-Series Honda Porn. No affiliation etc., just a cool site. Machine Shop

ENDYN. They do great work. I use their breather kit on my fun car. I also had a head sent down there literally just to see if it was salvageable (It was from a blown motor). He said yes and rewelded all the chambers, and I paid extra for some minor porting and reshaping of the chambers. It came out AWESOME. I actually didnt ask for such great work, I just thought it was gonna be rewelded, smoothed out to stock-ish and a minor porting, I got back an awesome piece of work similar to what there stage 1 port/polish is. If I can find pics I'll throw them up.

Also anyone who visits the site should take a look at there B20Vtec build in the archives section.

The neatness says a lot.

Dan

I've never seen an engine shop thart clean! It makes me want to buy a Honda engine just to send to them to be rebuilt.

Look at the section about the Mongoose Grand Sport 'Vette replica they commissioned and fineshed themselves. Beautiful work.

spitfirebill wrote: I've never seen an engine shop thart clean! It makes me want to buy a Honda engine just to send to them to be rebuilt.

They do MINI engines as well.

+1 on the Grand Sport... another car to possibly add to the "exotic car want" thread.

I really miss the TOO forum.

Some weirdos, to be sure, but there was a LOT of interesting info there.

When I have my crazy F20C-powered Saturn, they're building the engine. Freaking awesome stuff.

That place looks like a fun place to be. I skimmed through the text on the linked page and kept wondering if they are really so clever at building engines, why can't they figure out how to type the words that they mean?

"We do not lap valves and seats, as it's impossible to remove the embedded compound from the pours of the material and it will lead to early seat erosion and subsequent leakage."

"...we take whatever time is necessary to insure that the job is done to perfection."

Just two examples. The pictures speak for themselves and I would love to have work done there (or is it their or even they're? just kidding), but the site would be more professional with the proper words. That is a serious business that needs a serious website editor.

Yeah grammar isnt exactly the best but trust me, as a customer the work they do is worth it.

I'm a Grammar Nazi and I never really noticed...

Maybe I was too busy gawking at concepts like "high swirl = inherently stratified combustion, so we're seeing super low BSFCs and full throttle EGTs in the 800f range" and "the faster it burns, the less of a chance it has to detonate, so we design the piston and chamber together for burn quality and if compression ends up being 23:1, oh well, that's what the chamber wants"

It's no wonder so many people say they're full of it.

In reply to cxhb:

I don't doubt that just from looking at the pictures of their shop. If I had a choice between an engine builder who really knows engines, but has grammar issues or one that is so so with engines, but can write like a champ, there is no question about which one to choose.

I know I was being nitpicky, but if they spent even a tiny fraction of the time polishing the web site that they do polishing their cylinder heads I think it would be a good investment for them.

I would pay money to get a tour and then be able to just hang around all day and watch.

TJ wrote: I know I was being nitpicky, but if they spent even a tiny fraction of the time polishing the web site that they do polishing their cylinder heads I think it would be a good investment for them.

Yeah I do agree with you there. Getting the website updated or redone would be good for them.

Dear Santa:

TJ wrote: That place looks like a fun place to be. I skimmed through the text on the linked page and kept wondering if they are really so clever at building engines, why can't they figure out how to type the words that they mean? "We do not lap valves and seats, as it's impossible to remove the embedded compound from the pours of the material and it will lead to early seat erosion and subsequent leakage." "...we take whatever time is necessary to insure that the job is done to perfection." Just two examples. The pictures speak for themselves and I would love to have work done there (or is it their or even they're? just kidding), but the site would be more professional with the proper words. That is a serious business that needs a serious website editor.

As an editor, I'd like to point out that whether to use insure or ensure is, for some, considered a matter of style, and not a hard-and-fast rule. That said, in the citation above, most people would change insure to ensure. (The New Yorker magazine, which is famous for its weird style guide, would leave it as-is.)

In defense of the pours error, I don't think it's uncommon for touch-typists to incorrectly type homophones (words with the same pronunciation but different spelling). I certainly know the difference between it's and its, or they're and their, yet I regularly mis-type them and others.

(Yes, I'm at work, procrastinating: I'm supposed to be editing a technical document, which is not as much fun as posting the one-millionth forum post about grammar, which tells you how dull my job is...)

Point: It is extremely common for engineers to be crappy spellers.

My only gripe about the TOO website is that clicking a link automatically opens a new window. That bothers me.

OTOH, at least it's all basic HTML. I can't stand Flash-defective sites. I stopped using Tire Rack's site altogether because of its horribleness.