So i just went to install a b18b bottom end with my b16 head...Everything went ok, but the car only ran for about 2 minutes. I pull the cams to find this


This is the cam journal closest to the t-belt


2nd one closest to the tbelt


Cam itself


Cam cap


One more

I think i may have had my timing belt to tight, because the journals closest to the dizzy are fine, and they get worse closer to the tbelt. I don't know if this is fixable, or if the cam is any good any more

 

Looks like its pretty well jacked

 

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lol
did you have any oil in your head? see what your shop says, looks pretty well scarred tho- id say the cams are done for sure..

 

If the grooves are not super deep, which they don't look to be, I think it can be fixed. I know Dave at headgames has fixed some like that but I don't know the extent of the damage.

Did you even use any assembly lube when you reinstalled those cams?

 

That head had no oil.

 

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you can have that belt super tight and it wont do that. that head def didnt have enough oil and you ran the journals dry

 

assembly lube is your Friend

 

I don't think assembly lube would have saved that, you have a problem elsewhere. I usually don't use assembly lube when putting the cams in just make sure to put a lot of oil on everything.

 

Yeah i didn't have any assembly lube, so i just put oil all over everything...I also fulled the ECU fuse and primed the engine to get oil pressure before i started it. I am supplying oil to the head via a filter sandwich and a line to the back of the head.

 

you sure you had the cam caps in the right places and everything was clean

i had an itr head like that and sold it for cheap because i coulldnt get it fixed

 

i had the same thing happen to one of my heads a couple years ago, when i took the head off my ls vtec to put it on a gsr block i got. i had to drill the oil hole back out that was blocked for the ls motor but i obviously didnt get all the metal shavings out and they chewed up the head and cam pretty bad just like that.. so id say u had some dirt or metal shavings that worked there way in there and ate it up or blocked the oil passage.. u wanna make sure everything is very clean of dirt or anything that would clog the oil passage...

 

did put the caps for the cams on too tight?

 

Hey dumb question - do you have a "LS/VTEC" oil feed for the head?

 

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Another dumb one, what timing belt did you use??

 

all I can say is....wow! Jesus couldn't fix that..and he has help from above.

 

no oil , what way where the numbers facing when you put the caps back on ???

 

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