Could be you fouled a plug .
Jason Raser wrote:
>I installed a new timing chain on my SII a couple
>weeks ago and just fired it up this weekend.
>
>It has never started that easily. I was very
>impressed at first. But then I put a timing light on
>it and got wierd results. The light lit up
>intermittently so I assumed the timing light was bad
>and moved on. I figured that since it was static
>timed that I was okay.
>
>The car idled fine but was running rich. I used
>colortune to lean out the carbs and got it running
>pretty smooth. I let the car idle in the driveway for
>a while then shut it down.
>
>When I fired it up again it acted like it was out of
>time. It backfired through the carbs and just didn't
>want to run. I brought it up to TDC and pulled the
>distributor cap and the rotor was pointing right at
>the #1 spark plug wire so I know the distributor
>didn't move.
>
>I wonder if anyone has seen something like this. I
>suppose my next step is to adjust the valves again,
>but it seems so odd that it would start so easily and
>run smooth, then after shutting it down for an hour it
>runs so poorly.
>
>Any ideas? I'm very frustrated.
>
>Jason
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