Well you know how you have to line up the the line with the pinhole in the cam gear for it to be tdc? Im jus saying that the lil line is pretty much dead center in the pinhole in the cam gear. So Im positive it is tdc for that. I need to try and get some pics today or something. I think yamaha may come in and help me, I jus want someone too. I may jus go ahead and pull the head to make sure everything is all and well and jus have a port and polished done. laugh.gif

 

Pulling the head isn't "just" unless you happen to have a spare $50 head gasket laying around, and the moderately-special tools required! wink1.gif

Singh Grooves.

 

Well I dont necessarily wanna pull the head. But Im gonna have a buddy of mine port and polish my head for like $200. Hes good at it, he jus finished doing an integra gsr port and polish and Im impressed with his work. But I also would like to see if I messed up the intake valves for trying to rotate the motor when everything was hitting. If i did effer up some valves, I have a spare head in my shed I can steal the valves out of! Eh I can go rent the tools most likely from a parts store or something.

BTW- I may be getting some shark racing 268 cams. Woot woot!

 

indeed on the cams. You're going to have to sell me a set of intake valves for *my* head so don't go messing them all up now!

If you were spinning the engine by hand, you almost certainly didn't bend the valves. You would have been working against at least 2x 4mm thick steel rods. My parts engine stopped the hard way when the pistons hit the intake valves at XXXXRPM, and some of the valves didn't even look bent.

 

Yeah I figured that, jus would like to make sure so Im not worried bout it. But yamaha is gonna come in and help me and I trust his work definately. This is my first car build ever and hope it turns out... swell. I should really make a build thread one of these days.

 

It sounds like you either don't have the key in the crank and your pulley spun before it got tight enough, or whoever made your lightweight pulley built it wrong.

 

I was just reading over this post as I'm also in the middle of rebuilding my motor and plan to install a 1.8L intake cam. I couldn't help but think that if the gears are all lined up as they should be before you tension the timing belt, then become off by 1-1.5 teeth after you rotate. Is it possible that your timing belt may just be off by a tooth or 2?

 

Yeah that could be the issue too but I dont really know anymore due to the fact that I pulled the head off to have it port and polished. A fellow member (yamaha) is supposed to come and help me figure everything out after all the work is done to the head. So hopefully by then we'll have it figured out.