Abrupt Timing Change - CamGear Retarded Itself 10 Degrees!! Easiest Fix? Whyd It
 

So I was driving around today on break just wasting time, going maybe 60mph at around 10psi when my car pipe blew

So I was running basically a built d16a6 n/a and it felt like a dam dog, slower than before when I ran it n/a. I go back to work, think nothing of it. Come out after work and it starts up mint, I drive cross town to my girlfriends andFUCK is this car ever feeling slow, when I try and start the car up and leave her house it took about 15 tries with LOTS of gas

I managed to get it but the car would not hold itself alive, had to peddle it the whole way home just coasting in neutral and holding it up to about 2k.

Get out and pop the hood at home, everything seems mint, then I check the timing belt and my AEM adjustable cam gear and ofcourse it has gone from the 2* dvanced where I had it set last week and is now sitting on -8* retarded....

So did my timing belt jump a tooth or did my cam gear slip?

Whats the best and easiest way to prevent this from happening or to find the cause.

The motor only has about 200 miles on it.

Re: Abrupt Timing Change - CamGear Retarded Itself 10 Degrees!! Easiest Fix? Why
 

cam gear slip.
older 3 bolt design?

Re: Abrupt Timing Change - CamGear Retarded Itself 10 Degrees!! Easiest Fix? Whyd It
 

I would reset the cam/crank timing and then use some non permanent loctite on the cam gear adjustment bolts and torque them to 10ftlbs as I believe that is the spec.I have had Skunk gears jump on me that i tightened by hand pretty snug since then i torque them and try to use some loctite purple 222 or similar.Then see if it happens again but I would imagine it slipped on you.

Re: Abrupt Timing Change - CamGear Retarded Itself 10 Degrees!! Easiest Fix? Whyd It
 

Yeah its the 3 bolt design

How tight do these bolts have to be?

Re: Abrupt Timing Change - CamGear Retarded Itself 10 Degrees!! Easiest Fix? Whyd It
 

Re: Abrupt Timing Change - CamGear Retarded Itself 10 Degrees!! Easiest Fix? Whyd It
 

Whatdya know, the ------- bolts were like hand tight
Easy breezy swap

Went out for a test drive, air fuels richened up a whole .8-.9 and as soon as I boosted it my coolant hose popped right off the top of the rad!!

I tightenned them to about 40ftlbs by the way

Re: Abrupt Timing Change - CamGear Retarded Itself 10 Degrees!! Easiest Fix? Whyd It
 

no you tork then to 17 ft/lb according to the sticker that came with it.
I had mine for 2+ years, tork then to 20 and drive the ---- out of it, downshift to redline and such without any problem LOL

Re: Abrupt Timing Change - CamGear Retarded Itself 10 Degrees!! Easiest Fix? Whyd It
 

throw that piece of ---- cam gear away and get a decent one with like 5 bolts...