1) If you know you bent a valve and the car may only throw a CEL for one cylinder, other valves may be bent as found by my motor builder. My car said that I had a missfire in cylinder #3 (CEL 73) but when I took the head to the shop he found 3 other exhaust valves bent. The other 3 were bent MUCH less but they were unable to be reused.

2) If you're gonna have valve work done on your head, supply the shop with new valve seals. You can probably find them cheaper and it will speed up turn-around time.

3) When you put the head back on Pay Attention to which way the head gasket goes. If you rush you will mess it up and put it on upside down.

4) If the head gasket is put on upside down, it will dump all the motor's oil through the back passenger corner where the head meets the block. Not fun, very messy, and expensive because you should really use a new head gasket when you put it back together right.

5) When I put the timing belt back on the engine I found that when the cam gears were lined up right the crank pulley was a little less than an 1/8" foward of the pointer on the timing case. This is the closest I could get it to being "dead on" and I haven't timed it yet but it runs great. Has anybody else experienced this?

6) When I started up the car for the first time it blew some white smoke but once it got a good run on the highway the smoke cleared up and it dosn't smoke anymore.

 

yep putting the headgasket on wrong is a classic mistake, how the hell did you bend valves?

do you have a stock ecu with no revlimit or what man. i got full valvetrain on a b16 and slap 10k on occasion and ive never had any illeffects

derek

 

I think his t-belt broke on him