Bumping an old thread...

Recently swapped my near new (3,000km) EJ257 for a forged bottom end EJ257.

Only thing that changed was the internals but now I have a really rough idle and it tries to stall when coming to a stop, and hunts really bad when unloading yhe AC compressor.

I pulled the motor and checked over everything and played with the timing change discussed here, but didnt test it out on the car running.

I took some photos and just wanted to see if Ive lined it up correctly as per the above (1 tooth counterclockwise) and if this might be a solution to my problems?

Not a vac leak, tried new plugs, etc etc. Been there done that for all the usual so resorting to new things

1 tooth retarded



After rotating the crank a few times