Hi all, This is my eBay buy from earlier in the year, One MK2 Rev 3, 3.0 1MZ-FE engine with a supercharger. Bought the car as a non runner, well she did run but with no MOT, flat battery, flat tires and erratic idle speed, it needed some TLC.
So I got a brand new battery fitted, got a new section of exhaust made up and welded to the mongoose exhaust and all the tires resealed to odd rims (front to rear).
Got the car to a MOT center and she passed, but only just as the breaks where just a little low on performance, so got the car home and stripped all the breaks down and cleaned and lubed where needed. But still had the issues with the idle speed and lack of power.
Got the car booked in to a jap car tuning specialist and a few hours later got a call to say that the rear bank of cylinders where low on compression and suggested that a engine rebuild was is need, and to take my car while they priced all the parts and labor.
So in the mean time I was having a conversation with a friend who works for Vauxhal, who said he had that same issue a while back after a timing belt had been change, so it boiled down to the valve timing being out.
I had also began looking on this forum and found the original build by Antnkel, who used Paul Woods at Woodsport to do the engine change.
I then called up Paul, who was very helpful and he also suggested that as all the compression readings on the rear bank of cylinders where the same that the most likely problem was the valve timing.
The next week I got the car booked in to my local garage and asked him to check the valve timing out, when he got back in touch with me he told me the belt on the engine was a cheep Quint & Hazel one and that the rear bank of cylinders was out on the pulley by 5 teeth, A brand new belt kit with pulley and the car runs like a dream..
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