So after going threw hell and back with my engine build over winter break. I finally got it running 100%, It now has 600 miles on the motor. Still breaking it in.

Break down of the problems i had.

- Cam Angle sensor
- Bad battery
- Fouled spark plugs
- Idle too rich

so after a month all of theses problems were fixed, and now the car is running great!

Shout out to TCompusa for his help in finding the problem

I was almost at the point just selling it bec i was so frusted with the car but glad i didnt. just thought i would share my experience in my first engine built

 

Congrats. When breaking in the motor, did you baby it a while or beat on it? I've heard both ways and am just wondering what you went with.

 

congrats bro....I heard you're supposed to baby it for the first couple of miles.

 

i just pretty much am following the cobb break in. I like how they do it

 

congrats dude and wow good thing u didnt sell it..makes me scared for my first build

 

Glad everything worked out. I'm mad at myself for not buying it now.

 

Congrats. I hope I can get mine up.

My motor has 15k miles on it originally, so does the car. However, the valves got bent when it jumped time. So now I am going to have to break it in again.

I have a 2005 Evo. I just want to drive. I want to get it to the mountains here in TN before the snow is completely gone. =(

 

congrats, enjoy it man

 

congrats on getting your issues worked out. what did the shop you had it at say the diagnosis was?

 

Good thing you didn't sell it!!! I was interested, but you were just a tad too far. Glad to hear you got it up and ROARING! LOL!

 

Congrats...Glad to hear your faith is restored! Enjoy many miles to come!

 

i told everyone it was something small... it was $8 fix ha

 

they took out the spark plugs to do a compression test, and they saw the plugs covered in fuel. Replaced them started right up.

And before i gave to them i knew they were covered but still got spark so i didnt think that was the problem

 

Got lucky with a simple problem

 

Awesome, I wish all my problems were small easy fixes.