so i blow a head gasket, mark timing belt with crank and cam gear at tdc. i got the head resurfaced and compression came out perfect. i put the head back on start car and a big pop. i then popped off the valve cover and figred out the key in the cam gear broke off and stripped. the head shop didnt put the cam on right one of the vtec rocker arms was upside down. (i know my fault for rushing the job :thumbown so i get a new cam gear and mark it with the old one which was still marked.) adjusted al lthe rocker arms, torqued everything to spec, put cam gear on, aligned it with marks on timing belt (crank was at tdc as well as cam gear all marks matched up) i tightedn everything up and the car wont start. i still get spark, and the car wants to start but it wont, it gets close but has a weird bogging sound almost like an exhaust leak kind of sound. my noob guess is timing is off, but could the valves have gotten bent when cam gear was stripped? i have a completley stock d16z6. a friend told me the head is hemisphrical therefore the valves wouldnt interfere with the pistons,but then again my friend thinks heknow everything. please help, need car runnin soon.

 

oh yeah, i messed with the distributor too and that did nothing. its a newer distributor, cap and rotor.


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