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The K24 has the oil pump contained in this weird housing that sits down in the pan that houses some balance shafts. We will be removing the balance shafts because they don’t have much to do with the dynamic balance of the engine itself. They just exist to help cancel out the up and down shaking moment inherit in inline 4 cylinders, especially ones with long strokes.
Since we have no parts, we had to get a brand new chain tensioner from Honda.
We had to get every single part like this chain damper and every single nut and bolt. We got to be good friends with our local Honda dealer’s parts guy.
More genuine Honda parts, the timing chain, chain guides, various bolts, Honda bond sealer and even an oil filter all had to be gotten from the dealer.
A new timing chain cover was purchased. All the little parts were killing our budget! It is way better to start with a core engine.
We decided to use a factory multi layered or MLS steel head gasket. It is made of thin sheets of stainless steel, the outer layers are polymer coated to help seal against the deck surfaces. The inner layer is designed to put more clamping load around the cylinder bores. The gasket works very well, even in high performance applications.
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Cool to see you guys using the newer k24 blocks, wished you used the head too because I wanted to see what works. I’m building a k24z3 and saw that you cut off the balance shafts, by retaining the stock oil pump system means I can still use the bottom location oil filter correct?