A friend of mine is having a problem (ported and polished head, ect)

[coppertop_01]

My friend has a ION3 sedan, and he has done some work to it (his handle is saturnd00d on this forum), he just had a local company (the guy used to work at saturn) do the head install, he bought the head from somebody on turbosaturns.net, and there is nothing wrong with the head. It was installed wrong, the tech screwed up the timing, it was running really rough, and the tech said that it wasn't his fault, ect, ect, ect, and after a week of driving it, the car has a really bad sound in the timing area, by the exhaust valve. Kinda like a grinding/scraping noise

Anyways to the point, my friend only trusts my work, but here's the problem, I have done many many rebuilds on the old 1.9L LLO engine, but I haven't touched ecotech yet. I am going to be working on it tomrrow, and I would like to get some info on howto setup the timing right, as well as how to get it all apart.

Does anybody have a link to the info that I need, or pictures showing how todo it?

Jer

[saturnd00d]

Well, thanks to coppertop, and a few mutual friends, the car has been fixed. I have a leak in the exhaust manifold gasket because the tech never bolted down the manifold good enough, and part of the gasket may have blown off. It is running alot stronger and smoother now regardless, with the ECU still re-learning the right parameters due to the timing being re-adjusted. Once I fix this exhaust leak, I'll be golden.

[Moosehead115]

sweet man, glad to hear you got it sorted out, slap that tech around with a trout some. dyno sometime?

[saturnd00d]

I might dyno sometime, just not yet. I am more interest in what I run at the track though.