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4dr_ed3
10-09-2008, 08:26 PM
okay so i did the head swap off 7th gen forum everything bolted right up and all the connections are in. i tried the timing like 3 times the way the haynes manual says but its not working i tried it a lil diff and we wer able to get flames to shoot out the cylinder head on the ehaust side cuz at the time i didnt have the header on!!! im really getting frustrated on this now if ne one can help me figure out the timing issue id appreciate it.
4dr_ed3
10-10-2008, 03:52 PM
common guys 15 views and no one can say ne thing???!!! i just need to figure out how to find the compression stroke since i removed the belt already. im figuring that ive been setting the time backwards and thats why it doesnt turn over but i dont know how to figure out which is the compression stroke!!!!!
Jason.AZ1
10-10-2008, 04:59 PM
sorry buddy if I knew I would tell you...
MrRline2010
10-10-2008, 05:09 PM
why not just go to the stealership and have them do it or see if rc or someone could help you out?
4dr_ed3
10-10-2008, 10:37 PM
dealership proly wants an arm and a leg. ima probly take it apart again tomorrow and re do everything ill probly make sure i dont have ne bent valves if i do then my car will be out of comission for a another week and im not posting pics up of the car complete with my lip and all till i get this ish done
MrRline2010
10-11-2008, 05:35 AM
dealership proly wants an arm and a leg. ima probly take it apart again tomorrow and re do everything ill probly make sure i dont have ne bent valves if i do then my car will be out of comission for a another week and im not posting pics up of the car complete with my lip and all till i get this ish done

361 at stealership 528 if you get water pump. Stmpo would of done it for like 150 or so I think was the price, but not sure if they even do work now.
4dr_ed3
10-11-2008, 06:37 AM
^^^ 361 to get the head worked on or to have them put it on?
MrRline2010
10-11-2008, 11:49 AM
that's to do everything with the timing belt not the head. From what you posted sounded like you needed help getting timing done... That's for a new belt hell it might be even cheaper than what I said.
sniperscout
10-11-2008, 02:32 PM
i think you are using the term compression stroke incorrectly. What exactly is the issue? belt jumping? cant find TDC for the number 1 piston?
Jason.AZ1
10-11-2008, 04:03 PM
i think you are using the term compression stroke incorrectly. What exactly is the issue? belt jumping? cant find TDC for the number 1 piston?

i think thats what was causing his problems



but he got it to start up today I think thats what he texted me
so :thumbup: :thumbup:
4dr_ed3
10-11-2008, 08:37 PM
actually i was trying to find the TDC on the #1 piswton i took the head off and on today like 3 times to see if it was something else. it didnt start up so i thought i was doing everything wrong! but once i put the other head on the stock one everything went fine so im guessing the a2 head needs some work done to it. i wasnt doing ne thing wrong so it was the head. man i was begining to doubt myself but its freakin easy man after a few times of getting the head off and on after the head gets re-done its going back in so untill then im back to stock :(
96eKnDAwrks
10-11-2008, 10:50 PM
:grin: i think a wize man had said to go n tak the head to get worked on n cleaned first then put it on.:idiot: at least i think thats what i remember him saying. :type:you knw (MY DAD)!!!!! oh yea n next time dnt 4get to buy oil. but hey at least you got some practise in on taking off n puting on the head. lol:thumbup:
MrRline2010
10-11-2008, 11:43 PM
Just a curiosity question, but what were you going from lx to ex head?
Jason.AZ1
10-12-2008, 12:57 AM
Just a curiosity question, but what were you going from lx to ex head?

non vtec head to vtec yes
MrRline2010
10-12-2008, 01:30 AM
change out ecu with all this too?
Jason.AZ1
10-12-2008, 01:32 AM
change out ecu with all this too?

no thats why he bought a vtec controller so he could use his stock ecu
MrRline2010
10-12-2008, 01:39 AM
ten four
4dr_ed3
10-12-2008, 07:54 AM
thanks jason and yeah i was doing the lx to ex swap. theres a write up on the 7thgen civic forum. thats where i got the idea from. its not hard i just didnt listen to some ppl and get the head checked like i shoulda!!!
4dr_ed3
10-12-2008, 07:55 AM
:grin: i think a wize man had said to go n tak the head to get worked on n cleaned first then put it on.:idiot: at least i think thats what i remember him saying. :type:you knw (MY DAD)!!!!! oh yea n next time dnt 4get to buy oil. but hey at least you got some practise in on taking off n puting on the head. lol:thumbup:

you shut your mouth when your talking to me
jk a you were there so you know i got the skill to do this like nothing now
MrRline2010
10-12-2008, 09:20 AM
after you work all the bugs out with yours you can help me with mine :D
96eKnDAwrks
10-12-2008, 10:11 AM
:poke: hey i didnt say you couldn't do it. i'm just saying you maybe could of saved some headache's, by making sure the head was good in the 1st place. :bananaman: but hey it was werth a try. maybe next time well get it. we might need some new belts next time just 2b safe. timeing, n all the others 2. but thats just a sugjection.:hello: