I think I found it.

[travail]

Let's play a game called get some stock cam gears on there, stat. Or, at least get a set you can use as reference, that is just redonk dude.

Seriously, how on earth does the car even run? Is there something else going on here we don't know about? DSM Cams in it or something crazy?


I am willing to trade my cam gear's for stock one's.

[travail]

Yea, thats way off. Was the mark on the crank pulley lined up somehow and not the one on the sprocket? The cam marks and crank pulley marks were all lined up correctly after I moved the cams gears to the correct dowel holes.


I think my timing belt is loose that's why it moved. It has nothing to do with what you did.

[goodhart]

I just noticed you are missing a nut on one of the adjustment bolts on the intake cam gear also. I know you bought the car like this, but I wonder how the hell cam gears get so beat up like that??!?! Reminds me of the Greddy type S that was on my car when I got it, it was so beat up it looked like it fell off the car somehow and went tumbling down the road. Not sure how a BOV would get all beat up either...

[asshanson]

Your crank sprocket must have skipped 2 teeth, equaling 4 teeth on each cam. Judging by that last pic it definitely seems possible, looks like the belt is trying to skip again, so loose.

[tpunx99GSX]

definitly reset the TDC, have the tensioner checked or replaced, then do a leakdown test to verify that the valves are not bent.

[travail]

I got the car back together and it runs good. but now there is a knock under load from 2000 to about 4000 rpm and the knock goes a way when there is no load on the motor. That one noise went away to with the new idler pulley that I put in. I plan on hooking my lad top to it and see what is going on with the knock.