How To Build A Honda K24 VTEC Motor In 8 Minutes (And Spend 8 Years Paying It Off) | Carscoops carscoops
If you’ve got the time, space and patience to try building, or rebuilding, an engine for your project car, you could save a bundle of money versus getting shop to do all the work. Well, that’s the theory. But as this video shows, you can still land yourself with a big bill.in a series of standalone videos. But the latest video crams the entire build into just eight minutes, and breaks the costs down for the individual parts and procedures along the way.
that came with variable valve lift in addition to variable valve timing, and was fitted to the Celica. But for the MR2’s next upgrade, the YouTuber jumped ship to Honda., and a torquier 2.4 liter K24A4 engine, the kind you’d get in a Honda Accord from the same period, the idea is to build one great K motor that will give the unsuspecting MR2 almost twice the power it had when it left the factory.
And the costs rise steadily from there. You’ve got your obvious expenses like new pistons and rings, but there are additional hidden expenses for the first-time builder, like a machine to gap the rings and ring compressor , plus unsexy costs like $300 for a new timing chain and guides, and $180 for the tensioner. Not big money, maybe, but it all adds up.
And it really does do it quickly in this case. Having added $360 for an intake manifold, $375 for an oil pan, $449 for a clutch, $1,250 for a, then over $700 for a fuel rail and injectors, both IG’s credit card and his torque wrench are in desperate need of a vacation. Throw in the $451 for the conrods, a figure he forgot to add to the tally before uploading the video, the costs comes to $12,012.83, which must make the engine worth twice as much as the car.
But there’s a real sense of pride that comes from building your own motor, you always learn something along the way, and we’d love to give that 200+ hp