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The head was fine, the car never got hot enough to warp. We are working on getting her done tonight. Ran out of daylight, but that's what flood lights and flash lights are for, right??

FAIL Got everything put back together and the engine won't crank right. Hubby says he thinks the timing is off, even though everything was lined up and we cranked it a couple of times to make sure everything was still good. Any suggestions???

Not realy sure what i did wrong but it definitely sounds like i got the timing wrong. Done so many of these that i timed it rotated the engine three or so times and then re-checked and it was still lonined up so put it all back together before i tried starting the car.

Rechecked the timing and the timing is fine. The car just won't crank right. Seriously need some suggestions here. Anyone?

Hawaiian Goddess wrote:Rechecked the timing and the timing is fine. The car just won't crank right. Seriously need some suggestions here. Anyone?

Yea, i'm, baffled. There is spark and fuel. The tps is plugged in the crank position sensor is plugged in the knock sensor is plugged in and there is no codes. Does it matter which cam gear is used on which cam? Oh and didn't lose the magnet on the cam.

blue demon02 wrote:

Hawaiian Goddess wrote:Rechecked the timing and the timing is fine. The car just won't crank right. Seriously need some suggestions here. Anyone?

Yea, i'm, baffled. There is spark and fuel. The tps is plugged in the crank position sensor is plugged in the knock sensor is plugged in and there is no codes. Does it matter which cam gear is used on which cam? Oh and didn't lose the magnet on the cam.

So do i really have to admit that i wasn't paying attention and got the intake came 180 degree's off, lol, lined up the gear with the arrows pointing down.

Once i fixed that it fired right up. (go figure) now to fix the stripped bolt on the bottom of the turbo manifold. anyone got any idea's other then re-tapping the hole for a bigger bolt. its leaking like a mother and causing of course a massive vacuum leak at idle.

Can you just re-thread it?? Or is it too bad for that?

That happened on my old SRT motor. I had to drill it and retap it. Make sure you buy a nice tap those cheap ass ones will break off

SlvrACR wrote:That happened on my old SRT motor. I had to drill it and retap it. Make sure you buy a nice tap those cheap ass ones will break off

IDK, when i was putting it on it felt like it was getting tight but i could feel a gap between the flang and the bolt so i kept cranking then it started getting realy easy to turn and wasn't going in at all. Guessing i stripped it out pretty good. Going to just drill it out bigger and tap it and then put a m10 bolt in there.

Where is the thread that's stripped?

OK, so i guess i should update this. We went to the hardware store got everything we needed to fix the bolt. So i climbed underneath the car grabbed a flash light had tami start her up to double check it was really leaking from there and it wasn't leaking and nothing was burning off the motor. But it still idles like its got one huge vacuum leak and is over boosting to 20 PSI in all gears. You know the Neon Gods have never liked me and i think they still hate me. lol. going to start ruling things out one at a time. going to start by bypassing the solenoid that controls the wastgate and use a mbc i have to control boost to see if that went bad and or is plumbed wrong.

OK, so its been a little while but a few things to report. I did some reading and found out that 20PSI in these cars is not that odd and or un-usual so I bypassed all the solenoids and double checked everything and found zero vacuum leaks, so that left me with doing a compression check, forget the actual numbers but not one of the cylinders was over 110. So a few days ago i got a lucky break and had a few hours at home to kill during the afternoon and pulled the head off. Tested the valves and they seal up great (guess I should of surfaced the head after all ). So pulled everything off the head and its going down to my buddy Arthur (sic95SOHC) do do his porting magic on it then its getting re-surfaced and going back on the car. should have it back up in the next week or two. Also when i was going through my boxes of parts and or misc car junk i found a stratus intake manifold I forgot I had. So guess now i'm going to have to make an intake manifold for the car too Anyone know where to get aluminum welded in San Antonio?