I was helping my friend install his cam gear on a 1.6l sohc civic and we ran into something funny. We had to adveance the hell out of the cam to get it to not hesitate or stumble when you hit the accelerator. His mods are as follows, aem CAI,aemfuel rail, aem fuel press regulator, greedy catback, and aem cam gear. It seems to have lost some hp through out the rpm band. We measured tdc before installing the cam gear. My theory is that the fuel pressure is too low in comparrioson to his mods. He doesnt have a fuel press gauge yet so I can t adjust it. I know that on FOCI the the aem CAI make s you loose a little bit of low end tq but I dont know about hondas. Could the tdc be off causing the loss in hp? thanks for any help

 

cmon guys help me out here!

 

You might have the wrong gear for your year engine. The 96-2000 gear uses a different keyway position as compared to the 88-95 gear. I remember it being around 10-15 degrees different.

 

i dont think that is the problem. anyone else have any ideas?

 

i was ding a search and i saw where it is possible to adjust the ignition timing on these cars. Would this help out my friend? thanks

 

your timing belt is 1 tooth off.

YES IT IS!


TDC is off because cam timing is wacked from bad install.