cribbj wrote:
What about asking some of your neighbors' kids that hotrod these VAG's?
Seriously, I'm amazed what a following these 4 bangers have. Javad Shadzi over at 034Motorsports is an authority on them - it might be worth a phone call?
I'm going to have to do something.
I played with the cams a bit today and found that advancing the intake 4 teeth got the compression up to pretty good in all 4 cylinder and by coincidence is how the cams naturally sit......but it ran just awful like that. Same result I got when I powered the cam actuator.
The fact the compression came up confirms all it well with the valves and pistons as the leak-down had indicated and says the only thing that can be wrong is cam timing. This is very strange.....I can't understand why compression is so sensitive to intake position with cams as mild as these are.
I think I can figure out where the cams actually are without getting inside the engine using the lead-down tester. That's next I guess.