bent valves?

[Thor06]

What makes you think the valves were bent? Did your timing skip? I think I'm with them, your timing is probably a tooth off or something and you have some bad valve seals. My car's exhaust cam was off one tooth and it pulled the same numbers in the same spots.

[Pimpin Dsmstyle]

Originally Posted by Thor06

What makes you think the valves were bent? Did your timing skip? I think I'm with them, your timing is probably a tooth off or something and you have some bad valve seals. My car's exhaust cam was off one tooth and it pulled the same numbers in the same spots.

I repeat.. Every single timing mark is perfectly lined up. The only possible scenerio I can think of is if the crank pulley sprocket is on backwards. I clearly need some valve seals. The car runs better but not for long.

The car fires RIGHT UP and runs perfectly fine if I put in new / cleaned up spark plugs. After about 10 minutes of idling, it want's to die because the plugs get so fouled out. The odd part is that they are getting packed with carbon AND showing signs of detonation. So I'm a little bit confused. It still seems timing related. Compression is still within specifications. Ideas? We are changing to a different ECU again.