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PI Swap all done

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  • Start date Start date Apr 17, 2009
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SFC.Kill

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Finally done with the PI swap. She started right up. Sounds alot smoother, Throttle is more responsive. Will let you guys know how test drive goes. Thank to everyone one who helped me with the colored link on the timing chain issue.
 
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Thats great bro! so does the colored link line up every 8 turns or no? lets see some video!
 
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Didn't look, all I was concerned about was the timing marks every 2 rotations of the crank.
 
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gotcha, just curious
 

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sounds great, just fixed mine up tonight, i did the swap last weekend, but it turns out that i had one cam 180 degrees off... opps, that would explain the rough idle. I was surprised it ran at all...

She pulls like a mo-trucker, P&P PI heads ftw
 
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How did you get it 180 off?
 

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moving the crank around during install. I held the position on the cam to gear by zip tieing it. I forgot the final check of making sure the two cams where synced together. It was late in the night, i spent a lot of time getting the header bolts back on (with long tubes). Being 180 degrees off is "correct" but in the wrong stroke. That's why the compression testing read correctly. Its funny to look back on it now, close one.
 
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