2004-2005 Honda 2.2L short block discontinued

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01-29-2014, 09:57 AM

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SlowTeg

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Originally Posted by Billman250

About boring/sleeving....

The FRM cylinder (Fiber reinforced metal) can be bored .025, and still retain the FRM coating.

The big catch is this...my cost on the 4 Honda .025 oversized pistons is $880 (4 pistons, 4 ring sets). It gets very costly to repair, hence why I have a stack of blocks with scored cyls.

Ouch that is pricey.. I thought I read somewhere that someone like Mahle or someone else made .5mm overbore sized pistons? If you can overbore ~.6mm, .5mm over should keep the coating intact.

I do think there's nothing like a fresh OEM Honda block, but should the 2.2L block be unavailable down the road, hopefully there'll be other alternatives besides these pricey oem pistons or sleeving. I guess if you can afford ~$3k for a fresh shortblock and don't mind it sitting around for a while it's not a bad deal, especially if you factor in the cost of resleeving and rebuilding an OEM block will likely cost close to a new fresh oem block.