I have a b18c, it had just a minimum surfacing on the head and block...

Aftermarket Cam gears, Fluidampner pully... stock cams...

I have triple checked the mechanical timing, the cam gears point straight up and there is a mark on the inside of them that lines up perfectly when the "0" on the pulley is at the mark on the plastic cover..

I turn the car on, put on the timing light, and I cant get the mark past the "0" on the fluidampner... I have the timing locked at 16 in neptune..

Any ideas?

 

Im going to use a different timing light tonight to see if that could be the issue, this kinda has me scratching my head a bit. any other ideas?

 

Are you using a regular inductive timing light, or a timing light w/ the advance **** on the back? If it's the one with advance, you need to either set the **** to 0 and use the timing marks on the crank pulley (if that aftermarket has them, if not then on them), or set the **** to 16 and use the TDC mark on the pulley.

 

it is a snap on adjustable light... but it was acting weird, normally it will show the rpm on the light and I just use the marks on the pulley...

this time it was showing a steady ~2025rpm on the light.. which was odd... the car was idling at ~500(no iacv) and then I bumped it up to ~800....

I'm going to use a regular old light tonight to figure out if the light is my problem. The car sounds like it is timed correctly... but I want to know for sure.

 

Do you have a jumper wire in the diagnostic connector under the dash near the glove box? If not, you won't get a correct reading with the timing light.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PatrickGSR94 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Do you have a jumper wire in the diagnostic connector under the dash near the glove box? If not, you won't get a correct reading with the timing light.</TD></TR></TABLE>

You can lock timing in NepTune, which he's doing. The service connector is not necessary.

 

Most tunable programs allow for timing to be set. Make sure your cam gears & crank pulley timing is dead on the line. Cam gears might have to be adjusted to +2 degrees because of the mill.