I’ve been looking for these for years and finally found them for a decent price. Hopefully this will allow the little 2.0 to flow better and get some better numbers for the dyno day coming up!
Yesterday after work I decided to install the Shark Racing Camshafts. I printed out the DIY for the 1.8L intake cam, it’s been awhile since I have tore into the head. I folloed the directions rather thoroughly, making sure that the exhaust camshafts white dot was at top dead center with the cam shaft, and there were five links between the intake and exhaust camshaft. Everything went smoothly until I went to go start the car. It wouldn’t start at all. Thinking to myself you missed something small, go back and look, I doublechecked everything, but it sounded as it the engine was not getting any compression.
Being that I did this swap in the street in front of my parents house, I jacked up the right side of the cam and took the wheel off to see where the crank pulley was at. After looking at Patreezy’s DIY about the timing belt install, the notch for the pulley should face 9AM for the crank pulley to be at top dead center. So, After realigning both the camshaft gear and the crankshaft gear again. I tried to start the car again, and nothing, same situation, sounded like the engine had zero compression.
After talking to Dave about this extensivley, he suggested that I may have the crank 180 degrees out, causing zero engine compression. So, I realigned the crankshaft pulley notch to 3pm, and retightened everything. Tried to start it up, and the battery died. This all being at 8:50pm, right as it’s about to get dark outside. I ran down to Advance Auto Parts and got a set of jumper cables, and came back. I got everything hooked up, it sounded as if comprfession was there, butg I did not have my compression tool there to check. I took the sparkplugs out and they were covered in gas, leading me to believe I flooded the enigne.
I didn’t have any extra plugs with me, so I had to order some. Hopefully with some new plugs and a compression test will be able to tell me if I have everything installed correctly. Lesson learned, be prepared for anything.
If you were 180 out are those interference heads?
I dont understand how you could get it 180 out. Pull off the crank pully and see if the mark on the block lines up with the little cut on the crank gear. can you see the red dot throu the only hole on the top cam gear? The chain that attatchs the 2 cams has a line on them that matchs up with the 2 gold links. Is all that lined up? The only connectors that you would have to unplug would have been the MAF, TPS, cam shaft sensor, accel senser, intake air senser, coil packs and the main injector connector. Are you sure that you didnt mix up the Tps and intake temp sensor? Did you take your spark plugs out?
So, I went back over this morning after getting in at 1am from a wedding. Everything was actually aligned properly when I put the old camshaft’s back in. Piston #1 (passenger side piston) has to be at top dead center, and was. I also forgot that the old BetaI engine’s have hydrolic lifters, which means whenever you take a cmashaft out and oil gets into the lifters, they will need to bleed themselves out to be reset. I’m going to go back over tomorrow and see how everything it, hopefully she may just start right up.
everytime i see someone do a cam job on a newer 4 cyl., there are major issues. someone tried doing this on my engine as well and it never worked out right.
Got the head pulled in about 1.5 hours, and was suprised to find this. :owned:
dam thats sucks
I’m guessing I may need to get some new pistons as well.
i would clean them up. sucks but will be fine once you put back together
is that because of the botched cam install?
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whoops!
omfg, that is terrible.
I figured that would happen.
Yeah only because the people that are trying to do the installs dont know what there doing.
That sucks about your engine. When you put the cams in and tightend down all the camshaft caps did you make sure that they were still at TDC? Some times you have to adjust them alittle bit. Next time you try it you should probly take the lower cover off so you can be sure they belt didnt move down there.
lol… my buddy did the same shit with a 1.8l cam in his beta 2.0 motor… the cam goes in crooked and once you start tightening down the cam (in a slow and orderly fashion) it will seat properly and be good to go… unfortunate for him, instead of nicking his pistons like you, he bent valves hardcore (never turned the motor by hand :doh: cranked it with the starter :slap: )…
sucks man… luckily shit is rather cheap for those engines.
Why are all the valves open on that one side (exhaust side?) stuck open?? how could they all be stuck open?
It’s hard to tell from the pictures but are your valves bent as well? they look so.
time to get to the junk yard for some valves and pistons. I wonder if they would let you take the head off to take all the valves out… better yet just buy a used head and get it machined.
I would get the factory service manual so that you won’t have a chance of something like this happening again. I’m always so afraid of messing something up like this. But look at the bright side, now you have an excuse to get some better parts. get a valve job and get the new valves back cut or something.
Gook luck getting it back together.
valves are bent…they stick open…
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