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Re: 97 Aurora backfiring/surging/loss of power
Well I hope for your case you do not have the same problem I had. The timing chains gear intermediate shaft and bearing wore out. This allowed the timing chain to start to bounce and eventually jump time. Now if this was all it was it would be easy to fix. Unfortunately the intake valves are interferance (exhaust are non interferance) and bend.
Do a pressure check on the cylinders. If one head has no compression and the other is fine you have the exact same thing that happened to mine.
Now for the really bad news. Even if you can do the rebuild yourself, parts for this engine get very expensive very fast. Plus when you go to torque the heads down they will probably strip out. GM recomends timeserts for this fix. I found a better design by a company named fulltorque. Now the inserts are $10 a piece and installation is $10 each. So there goes $400 to that alone. Gasket sets are another $300. So as you can see really expensive really fast.
Good luck
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