My Vtec Gives Hugs mmmbah
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I got the head on today. Only had a couple hours to work on it. I spent most of the time thinking. I got the head on by myself, which anyone who's done it before can attest... is a whore. But it went pretty smoothly.
I didn't mark the cams with the timing chain when i took it all apart, so I don't know if I timed it right. I just put the #1 piston at TDC and slapped the head on. Then I put the cams down in the head and took the slack side of the chain, pulled tight, and wrapped it up with the properly aligned exhaust cam.
Once the exhaust cam seemed lined up, I counted 20 rollers over and put the mark for the intake cam there. Put in the tensioner. Seems good. I guess I won't know until I start it eh? I can hear compression when cranking the engine by hand... so that's good.
I stopped at the intake manifold. I have to go get a throttle body screw at the store, and my wife wants to spend time with me... so it's quits for now.
I'll get the intake manifold put back on, then work on getting the turbo on. Once that is done, the car should fire up. I am going to run a motor flush though the motor for a few minutes and then change the oil out.