I have a 96 b18c1 motor and the distributor is all the way advanced and i am still 3 deg retarted from stock

1. The timming belt is a after market belt and is longer


2. The head is shaved and making it a longer belt


3. It has a thinner head gasket

I myself think it is some of all and i am going to go with a Honda belt and get a set of cam gears, and with that bring the distributor back a bit then advance my cams and then bring the ignition timming up 2 deg

the car had a compression test done and it was cold it put out like 210 psi of comprestion

Is this going to be the right way to go about this and could there be anything else wrong

and the car does run strong it went 14.4 N/A and i had a cell from the obd2 ecu now i have the obd1 ecu with a convertion harness and it seems to me that it is running stronger

this is in a 95 hatch DX

 

Hmm, what cam gears do you have?

I would go with a factory timing belt and make sure the motor is timed at TDC once again. Seems to me it is off by a few teeth on the intake cam (and possibly the exhaust cam).

Make sure the markings on the crank is aligned and the cam gears arrows (for stock cam gears) are pointing straight up with the dented marking aligned.

HTH.

 

right now the cam gears are stock but i am going to go with a new factory timming belt and iam going to go with a set of GE cam gears and get everything timed in

 

what does everyone else think?

 

anyone?