Thread: B15ve Swap

Give us some compression #'s also

If i remeber we had a block of wood wedged down between the chains and gears shaped like a triangle . I'm goin to go back over everything with him maybee today or tomorrow . And well get some pics up . It's weird how the chain was tight as hell after driven for a few hundred miles . I'm at a loss and I know he getting fed up with it .

I have pictures in the beginning of this thread that shows us putting the cams in. It's gonna rain for a few days, but when we do it, i'll try to take some pictures.

That tensioner that was in there was cracked and it tightened as much as the chain would let it.

I saw the results after the new one was installed and it was good. From what I saw, I thought the cam gears were on point. I did not know the marks on the pulley so I cant really tell you what I thought about them. The one thing I should have done was count pins between the dots.

Engine swaps are not digital, 0 and 1, cut and dry. Stay with it, figure it out and run that sucker!

This is what worries me.

That is normal, the chain is suppose to be tight because the tensioner has taken up the slack. When you install a new tensioner, the chain will have more slack, because there is no oil pressure to extend the tensioner, and the tensioner has not fully racheted outward.

However, a crack tensioner is abnormal. Sounds like installation error.

Like most on here, I suspect the cams were not installed correctly. Take some pictures from the front of the engine(crank pulley side), so we can see the cam sprockets timing marks relative to the chain. The pictures from the first post do not help.

It's been raining here in Philly. I think we'll mess around with it on Thursday and I'll take some pics.

Hey Thursday let's take he cams back out and start from scratch and align everything back up to make sure we are on point !

good idear ^^

Do a before and after compression test