As many of you know, my car has not been out AT ALL this year!! It spun a rod bearing in March and hasn’t seen the road since, except for being on a flatbed. I’ve done everything possible to get this shit box back on the road, from: replacing the entire wiring harness/ getting rid of my cobb job wiring from last year, replacing all sensors, fooling with the AEM…etc. I figured I checked all electrical/ sensor possibilities, so I thought that it might actually be a mechanical problem.
I checked the timing belt numberous times throughout this process and knew for certain it was correct. OK then, what could it be. Today I pulled the valve covers off just to take a peak into the heads to reashure myself everything was fine. It turns out, whoever put the heads together for this engine somehow switched the intake and exhaust cams!!
So I guess i have to take the cams out and switch them, and lucky me, I also get to do another 6G72 timingbelt!! Im so excited!.. :headbang
I am very lucky though that there wasn’t any damage to the internals bc of someone elses screw up…
I gotta get over there and help you clean up that wiring disaster you’ve got under the hood. The car better be fast enough for me to shit my pants, or I’ll be very disappointed. LOL
IT’S ALIVE!!! I worked on it last night and early this morning. Started right up and I took it around the block! Turns out who ever put the heads together initially put the cams in the wrong spot (exhaust in the intake, and intake in the exhaust).
I have to fix the return flange on the turbo and change the oil, but I’m kinda nervous to drive it bc its a brand new built motor…
-Anyone have any other tips for freshly built motors?? Other than changing the oil, what else should I keep an eye on??
give it 500 miles before you beat the snot out of it. Check all you gaskets over to make sure there is no failure anywhere. replace the spark plugs after initial breakin.
