timing marks on cam gears

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I installed cams over the weekend into the car.

I tied the cam gears to the belt, made marks on the belt and cam gears so in case they slip I can put the belt back on to the right grooves.

The belt did not slip on the bottom, i am 99.99% positive.

However even if it did the top 2 marks should still line up because cam gears are still equal amount apart.

when i put it all back together and line it up to TDC on the cyl 1
and line up the outside marks of the cam gears the inside 2 marks are below the straight edge. by about 1 mm each.

So it seams that intake cam is at 358degrees and exhaust cam is at like 2 degree.

I rotated the engine about 100 times slowly checking if there is any contact and there didn't seam to be any.

after letting it sit there over night i went out again tomorow and rotated again and it was still the same (hoping the gremlins would fix it overnight), I decided to start the engine. So yeah, F removed the fuse, cranked over 10 seconds, cranked again 10 seconds, cranked again, checked for oil. Good to go. Started right away.

Seams to be working just fine, car starts and idles perfictly.

Only thing now i have noticed is a ticking noise coming from the top left of the valve cover, the PCV valve, it sounds like the ball is going back and forth and making the ticking noise.

So conclusion. 16inches of vacum and it still pulsating. wtf?!
when there is vacum it should be open and suck air out of the head. When there is boost it should close.


Any ideas?

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