As some of you may know from my last post, I just put on a brand new head. The car ran Great! Other than the fact that it was leaking oil... Due to bad Cam gear seal. So while replacing that, I think I may have threw timing off some, I tryed to adjust it to perfect settings.
So I started my car up and it idled perfect, With lil poping in exhaust that I dont remember hearing before, Or It may have done it before I dont remmeber, and the intake is "humming" I hear a humming coming from intake.........

Anyway, while leaving, I get on it a lil in first gear and My intake IS LOUD as ****! Never been this loud!!!!!!! My intake is loud!!!! and the car has no *****! So......
fromt what i have told you, we agree timing is off?

My real question is, am I going to mess **** up driving like this for 1 more day or 2 at the latest? I bent the valves in the last head and Im scared as hell to bend the valves again! as this is a BRAND spankn' new head with everything new on it!!!!!!!!!!




Modified by zx2gotboost at 9:14 PM 12/20/2005

 

BTW, its a slow *** 1.5L SOHC non vtec Civic DX

 

ok, ill answer my own question, Obviouysly, the timing is off, the intake valaves are opening too soon??

the question I wanna know right now is..... if I drive with it like this for another day, will the car/valves be ok? Its like 1 tooth off timing......................................... nothing major..

 

i wouldnt do it if it was more than 2 teeth off.. lol you could probably survive its its only a tooth off

 

well, valve timing is off 1 tooth, and I drove it alread about 2 miles................

 

it should be fine, aside from running shitty .. i once ran 2 weeks one tooth off

 

"should?" Like I said, im at TDC, but the cam reads 1 tooth off.............

 

Your fine. Just reset the timing. You were probably hearing the different intake noise because the valve timing/lift dramatically changes the sound of the motor.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JeffBro &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Your fine. Just reset the timing. You were probably hearing the different intake noise because the valve timing/lift dramatically changes the sound of the motor.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i used to have the same problem. Resetting the timing?wtf?

i tried lots of things and didnt work so i decided to sell the car. Timing was fine but more likely it was a bent valve.



Modified by civic_type_r at 7:22 PM 12/21/2005

 

Well, I have been driving it to and from work now, im on break, a smal lil break, and the car seems to be ok, Im pretty sure in my own mind ill be ok, besides, the loud *** intake sound is Kinda cool..........

Not cool if I bent a valve, but im sure I wont, I "try" not to go into WOT...............

 

I ran mine for about 4 months notthing happened just the popping got annoying

 

If it's one tooth off why don't you just fix it real quick?

Only takes like 5 minutes max.

- Bring the bottom end to TDC
- Take off upper timing cover
- Slide timing belt off cam gear
- Use wrench to move cam to TDC
- Slide timing belt back on
- Replace upper timing cover

Done deal.

Why drive around like this when you know the problem??