What Happened

[UncleBob]

Originally Posted by GreyGoose006

well once and for all, which is it?
i vote non-interference...
we should start a new thread with a poll...

I know for a fact they are interference motors. But I'll take someones money if they want to bet me

[rivethed]

ok just so everyone understands this motor is a NON-INTERFERANCE motor.

[UncleBob]

Originally Posted by rivethed

ok just so everyone understands this motor is a NON-INTERFERANCE motor.

using capitol letters doesn't reconfigure your engine.

Just humor me, the next time you have the timing belt off. Put the crank at TDC and try to turn a cam 360* revolution. It'll come off a valve spring and go *THUNK* and stop dead.

That is the sound of valves hitting a piston....hard.

Its a very aggressive way of finding out, but its accurate 100% of the time.

I don't really care if you believe me, but whatever source you're using, that you are basing your assumptions off of, is flat up wrong. You seem to have trouble believing its possible. But thats ok. Its not my car, so I'm not too worried about convincing you about it.

But I would like the $100, if you do want to bet me on it

[rivethed]

ok so interferance motors are harder to get the timing done... right? because it has to be perfect, so if im at TDC now and its not starting and i have turned the crank 360 back to the other TDC an no start should i retard the timing or advance or what should i do?

[UncleBob]

If you have a digital camera, take pictures of the cam and crank marks as they are lined up now. Randomly changing timing alignment to solve an unknown problem is definitely not advisable.

Interference motors are no harder to do a timing belt on. Its the consequences of getting the timing wrong that is the major difference. To reiterate what I said earlier, you get it too far off, you have a junk motor afterwords. IE, several thousands of dollars worth of a silly mistake.

You're playing with fire, randomly moving timing marks around