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Fast Acting, Long Lasting
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Eastern Chatham co. NC.
Posts: 1,171
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Two years ago, on Thanksgiving weekend in my tiny two car garage, I did that very job on my wife's 2003 Civic because of coolant displacement and overheating. I straightedged the head and found a .005" low spot between #2, and #3 so machine work was necessary. I was lucky that the machine shop I use for head work was open that Friday.
Even though her's has a VTEC head, and COP ignition, it's still about the same amount of work. In all, I believe it took me about 8 hours total.
In my opinion, it's a good call to farm out the job to a shop. There might be some head warpage that'll need to be addressed.
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