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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 03:07 PM
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27* WTF???? Need help quickly

I timed my motor it was at 27* factory is like 8*?
So I put it at 8* now the car runs like crap!!!!! wont rev past 3500 or 4000 now Was my cam installed wrong? Is the ECM messing me up? WTF!!!
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 03:12 PM
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Sounds like it was timed more or less correctly before; and you messed it up by setting it to the "spec" without disconnecting the EST wire.
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 04:30 PM
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Yeah I disconnected the wrong connector I found that out a while ago. Sorry... let the thread die lol
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 07:31 PM
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Yeah I disconnected the wrong connector I found that out a while ago. Sorry... let the thread die lol
But he posted like 5 min after you created this thread, which was today
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 07:48 PM
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yeah yeah , I left as soon as I posted and retimed the motor and came back... never saw the reply
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 07:59 PM
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I know you solved your issue, but I made the mistake of setting my timing once after a balancer had slipped, boy did it run bad. Took me a little bit to figure out that one.
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 11:51 PM
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I made the mistake of setting my timing once after a balancer had slipped
i hear ya on that one. same thing happened to me but, the timing was way off, literally 90* off .
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