Exciting news!
After 5 long months, I have a working hippo!
Apparently, I was clumsy but lucky.
Clumsy because I put the exhaust camshaft sprocket to the wrong position of the camshaft (I put the camshaft pin to the "IN" hole instead of the "EX" one). So, although the sprockets looked perfectly timed from outside, they weren't.
Lucky, because the valves didn't interfere with the pistons, so I saved myself from cooking a "valve soup" in my engine.
Also luckily, the car seems to work fine (drove like 150 miles or 250 kilometers) without issues from the skimming I did to my block.
Fingers crossed.
Next step is fixing my VCU.
Is Bell Engineering still a legit solution for me?
Cheers
After 5 long months, I have a working hippo!
Apparently, I was clumsy but lucky.
Clumsy because I put the exhaust camshaft sprocket to the wrong position of the camshaft (I put the camshaft pin to the "IN" hole instead of the "EX" one). So, although the sprockets looked perfectly timed from outside, they weren't.
Lucky, because the valves didn't interfere with the pistons, so I saved myself from cooking a "valve soup" in my engine.
Also luckily, the car seems to work fine (drove like 150 miles or 250 kilometers) without issues from the skimming I did to my block.
Fingers crossed.
Next step is fixing my VCU.
Is Bell Engineering still a legit solution for me?
Cheers
Glad your all up & running. No problems with Bell Eng. for your recon VCU.Exciting news!
After 5 long months, I have a working hippo!
Apparently, I was clumsy but lucky.
Clumsy because I put the exhaust camshaft sprocket to the wrong position of the camshaft (I put the camshaft pin to the "IN" hole instead of the "EX" one). So, although the sprockets looked perfectly timed from outside, they weren't.
Lucky, because the valves didn't interfere with the pistons, so I saved myself from cooking a "valve soup" in my engine.
Also luckily, the car seems to work fine (drove like 150 miles or 250 kilometers) without issues from the skimming I did to my block.
Fingers crossed.
Next step is fixing my VCU.
Is Bell Engineering still a legit solution for me?
Cheers
