1990 Acura Integra LS

Heres the story...

The car just got a water pump put in at a shop, when i got it back it was missing bad. I brought it back to them and they "fixed it"... well it still misses, not as bad though, its driveable and everything.

The car has no lower timing cover. When we took the VC off to check the cam gears, they are off by atleast a tooth or two. While the #1 piston is at TDC, the cam gears are not, the marking are atleast one tooth off on the intake and exhaust cams.

While the #1 piston is at TDC the crank pully is pretty much 180 degrees opposite, i cannot even see the timing marks on the pully...

WTF, how is the car running, it does miss, not bad though.. And when I floor it and get to 5000 RPM's, it just pretty much hits a "rev limiter"

Can anyone please explain how the timing is off so much and teh car still runs? also Taking the car back to the shop is out of the question, i will never step foot on there property again...

TIA,
mike

 

ttt help please

 

anyone?

 

If your #1 cylinder is tdc then your crank pulley isn't 180 degrees off, its just not possible - I would pull the crank pulley off and line up the crank timing belt gear with the mark on the oil pump housing, then line up all your cam gear marks and see how it runs