Now we pulled the cylinder head off. You can see that this engine had an excess amount of blow by on one cylinder. Everything else looks to be in great shape. How would you like to have just bolted this in and race? Not me!!



Here you can see the engine with the cylinder head off. Again, its worth noting how wet number one cylinder is because of the oil blow by issue. Nothing to be concerned about because we are going to rebuild this engine from the ground up. But could you see have running this engine? No way!



Here is one of the pistons out of the engine showing the oil blow by even better. Look at the wear on the pistons as well and this was a low mileage engine. Not a race engine as it sits, but once we rebuild it, this engine will rock!



Now we can see the block with the rotating assembly removed. Looks good and clean with no issues. Just needs to be degreased.



Now we have all our parts disassembled and laid out. We want to keep the cam towers for sure and maybe some of the bolts to be reused. Here you can also see the girdle! Yes thats right, no main caps! The bottom end of these Hondas are strong. If you look closely Honda even puts steel inserts at the main bearings for durability.