many rebuilt sr20s wind up this way. And yet, everytime I mention these statistics along with the warning "do not attempt a rebuild. buy another long block" I am told otherwise.
As if, as if I dont know.
It isn't your fault; they are extremely sensitive engines. Both with respect to the spaces between parts, and the filthy air we breath. You should be building this engine in a clean room with a running HEPA filter, as if you are painting a car. And that is assuming you can actually get decent machine work done to it; which I want to say is the primary cause for failure to begin with. Something the owner has no control over, isn't that just perfect? You can be the best engine builder in the world and have it fall apart because the guy in the machine shop doesn't specialize in tight engines, and thinks that .0022" is close enough to .0014" for it to work.
Ill add you to the list I recently started keeping track
http://zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t=535520
http://zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?t=569861
http://zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?p=5765974