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Well, we got the cam installed. Put it all back together and there's 3 bolts still hanging around in our bolt pan :(. Figured, what the heck, let's crank it. It backfires like crazy, and won't even idle. It'll clear up at about ~1700RPMs and sounds perfectly fine, but you let off the gas and it'll start popping at ya and usually dies. After having it run for a few minutes, it runs better and is even able to idle, but still popping below 1700RPMs :(. I need to get the thing scanned, but figured you guys might have an idea as to what's wrong. I put the GT2 cam in, with all new gaskets and a new timing chain. Supposedly this cam is safe with stock internals, and my 3 week period for the install suddenly was crushed down to 2 days, so I had to get it done ASAP. We thought we might have crossed some plug wires, but then why would it run just fine at ~1700RPMs and higher? I can cleanly rev it up to the limiter and have no problems at all. I took it for a test drive the other day, and as soon as there's a load on the engine, it backfires like crazy again, and this time won't clear up until ~4000RPMs :(. My uncle thinks my intake manifold isn't bolted on all the way and is causing a big leak, which would make sense; my dad hopes it's just the plugs crossed, so we don't have to tear it down again. Any input? We made sure everything was perfectly aligned with the timing chain and all.
BTW- after a bit of tinkering and letting it run, she decided to idle nicely for a few minutes. The sound was heavenly :drool: . Sound clip will definitely be proceeding her completion!!
BTW- after a bit of tinkering and letting it run, she decided to idle nicely for a few minutes. The sound was heavenly :drool: . Sound clip will definitely be proceeding her completion!!
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