Timing components to replace when doing a whipple?

[DougS550]

So that PBH pan set-up is designed to fit with the stock main hardware. I had ARP hardware and the pick-up tube just didn't seem to seat correctly. I think the geometry was off and it was causing the low pressure issue by not allowing the pick-up tube to but up to the shoulder that it welded onto the tube and allowed for a break in suction from the pump gerars. The shop it's at now, has a really good tech that is very methodical. He put it through a bunch of tests ran continuity on the entire wiring harness one by one, because low oil pressure was only 1 of many issues it was having. There were a bunch of timing codes as well. It was consistently low according to the published data, especially at idle and high idle.

Oil activated VVT is great when you have oil pressure, not so much, when you don't. Lesson learned. The one tensioner that failed completely you can compress by hand, easily, the other you can begin to compress it about a cm by hand easily, then it gets harder. When they are new, there's no way you can do them by hand, it takes a vise. I get the car back later today, so fingers crossed, it's all worked out.

Keep us posted. My cars in the shop getting the transmission fluid changed. Car has 2400 miles and I wanted the break in fluid replaced before I take it to the dyno soon to test out my new mods including the Smoothboost Boost controller. Later

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[HKusp]

Keep us posted. My cars in the shop getting the transmission fluid changed. Car has 2400 miles and I wanted the break in fluid replaced before I take it to the dyno soon to test out my new mods including the Smoothboost Boost controller. Later

They were buttoning a few things up about an hour ago. They are going to run it with some 5w30 and a cheap filter take it for a ride, then drain it, fill it again, with 5w30 and a cheap filter, run it again, then drain and fill with Motorcraft 5w50 and a Motorcraft filter. They want to get all the oil out from when the timing chains were losse. It has some sparkles in it. I'll go grab it tonight after work and we will go from there.

 

[HKusp]

Still getting a cam correlation code, P0019 Camshaft Correlation Bank 2 Sensor B, and P0025B camshaft position-timing over retarded bank 2. There is a very noticeable tick that sounds like a lifter or an exhaust leak. I am thinking about running it up to about 8300rpm and keep it there until it lets go. I am so frustrated.

 

[HKusp]

Sooo...turns out a very small seal was missing on the bridge on the front cam bridge between the 2 cams on the drivers side. I must have dropped it when I was installing the cams. This caused a lack of oil pressure to the cams and was a reason why I would get an intermittent low oil pressure CEL light occasionally at random times in mid to high rpm. This caused 3 lobes on that cam to rotate on the cam core and consequently TRASHED the cams, and the heads. So I bought used good set of cams and heads to put on the car. I am going to move the PAC springs from the trashed heads to the "new" ones and move on. This has been quite the ordeal, but I hope this fixes a bunch of issues that have been plaguing the car.

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