Early 2011: with warm weather, comes progress

[Kreez]

I accomplished near nothing this winter, but now that 70* days are here, I can make the long trek to my parent's property and make some headway.

My dad was away this weekend, so I had the place to myself. It took a bit of time to remember where I left off, but soon I was moving right along.

Cams are on and the t-belt is in place.
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About to set timing...with help from the special tools.
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VC on, new NGK plugs, timing good to go; all set to fire it up for just a second.
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I give it a go. All it does is turn over
So I do a compression test. I was getting 0-60 psi on all cylinders. I started freaking out

I stepped away from the car for a moment and started reviewing vfaq. Then I realized that the cam sprokets were on backwards. Not only that, I had the spark plug wires on incorrectly

So I switched the gears, redid the timing, double checked everything.

And now..........nearly 120 compression on all four cylinders when cold! Made for a happy Saturday.
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[gho5tone]

Haha, jumping to conclusion in 5 seconds flat. Good thing you took a breather and look it over. I have yet to tackle the timing job, but I shouldn't need to for awhile unless I wanted to upgrade the belt .

Is that jay's racing timing kit?

 

[Kreez]

Haha, jumping to conclusion in 5 seconds flat. Good thing you took a breather and look it over. I have yet to tackle the timing job, but I shouldn't need to for awhile unless I wanted to upgrade the belt .

Is that jay's racing timing kit?

It took a little longer than five seconds, but I felt pretty dumb when I realized. Glad I didn't smash the valves or something.

NAPA belt is all that fit my budget . And the timing job was a little daunting at first, but now that I've done it twice, it's pretty straight forward. It takes me hours to do anything anyway, I'm super slow

 

[Bud92gsx]

Typical Coloradian....What tabout the RS laser? When you getting that up and running?

 

[Kreez]

Typical Coloradian....What tabout the RS laser? When you getting that up and running?

They're both RS Lasers according to the back bumper

And I can't start my turbo Laser until I move, because I need to drive it to the new place.