Hey guys we just reinstalled our head we had it gasket matched and refreshed along with Skunk2's IM and TB. After rechecking valve clearence (.007 I and E) we atempted to start the car. It statrted but was out of time as we were a tooth off on the cam (timing was just outside the marks). We moved it to what we thought was correct and started the engine again it was worse. We thought maybey we went the wrong direction so we went back 2 teeth on the cam gear in the other direction. Engine started ran rough for about 10 sec and shut off and would not refire. We then took the valve cover off and timing belt off reset the block and head to TDS then rerouted the timing belt and tried to start it again. It acts as if there is no fire. Timing light showes center of the 2 marks on the crank pully. Pull the plugs they are soaked. Change plugs check distributor and coil even hook up a plug and groud it to the valve cover bolts to make sure that we had spark. Now we are scratching our head because now if we try to start the car after about 7-8 sec it will backfire really loud then goes back to acing like it has no fire.

Any ideas????? I'm at a total loss of ideas.

Thanx for any help.

 

 

^^^ Thanx but we have a Hlems manuel. Any other ideas?

 

Sounds like an issue I had when my MAP sensor went bad and the car just would not start. Finally I'd get it to start with some help from my buddy outside the car playing with the TB to get it to fire, then it'd run horrible for about 5 seconds and then throw and ECU code for the MAP sensor.

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Sam