Can't just use the lever on the throttle body?

 

yea i could, didnt do that last night

 

sounds like you are cross eyed pissed about this shit. i would be too. 9 sec capable car and you cant even enjoy it cause of all these problems.

 

I'm so mad, i drive the car for a week after the v160, then vinyl wrap it while i go on vacation, drive it for 2 days, do a few highway pulls with a buddy to show him the car, starts ticking, do a leak down and compression test, valves are ok, compression is mint, plugs are good, take whole turbo set up off to replace the tct with the inline pro version, put everything back on, turns out my tct wasnt the problem, i wanna punch someone, more info coming soon, can i remove the timing chain cover with out removing the pan? just the bolts that go through the pan to the cover?

 

Sounded like mine too. I tried everything. Replaced the tct, took the drive belt off, valve adjust, compression tested(200, 200, 200, 215), replaced rod bearings(no brass flakes in the oil but thought Id try anyway), and nothing fixed it. I finally dropped it and took it apart. I found the #4 was scored badly.

 

I really really hope thats not the case with my motor, I mean this motor is built and has like only 1000 miles it, when my mechanic friend alex listened to it with the stethiscope he said its 100% not in the bottom end or in the valves, its in the timing gear, ill get the cover off this weekend hopefully tonight after i go to this meet, with out my freaken s2k, I'll show some bimmer pride tonight

 

O that reminds me. My friend had that problem. He didnt align the cam gears right after doing retainers and chipped one of the cam gears teeth. It caused a horrible clicking noise. That could also be the problem. That would be easily spotted when you pop the valve cover off.

 

hmm I checked my timing marks and they were on, I'll double check but the problem started while driving not after installing the cam gears, I didnt remove them since a long time ago until this started

 

its Evans tuned and fully built on E85, with good comptession/leakdown numbers, I thin;s its something minor like you suspect

 

Matt,


You CAN get the cover off without dropping the pan, but no chance you will get it back on. Save yourself the headache and just drop the pan down.

Ask me how I know.... lol