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Originally Posted by Btborja
Okay so tell me what y’all think. I took my air intake off the car and sprayed starter fluid at throttle body. Had my girlfriend crank the car and it literally shot fire straight out! Super wild! So I got to thinking is there anyway possible I put the heads on backwards??? Would that even work?? I followed this guide to the absolute T! https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/20...87902-5448.pdf Not once, not twice, but three times! I know there is no way in hell I installed it incorrectly unless I’m 360 out some how... but how would I even know I was 360 out?? I did timing and cranked the crank a million times never once got outta line or anything. So honestly could I have put the heads on wrong? Is that even possible?? Or am I just tripping?? What’s y’all’s input.... |
Well, you wouldn’t ever be able to install the heads backwards seeing how your cam sprockets need to be towards the front of the engine, but I suppose it MIGHT be possible to swap the heads from passenger’s side to driver’s side, but I highly doubt that Subaru would engineer that possibility into the design. I.E. the bolt patterns simply wouldn’t allow for that to be possible and you would be using the intake ports as exhaust ports and vice versa. You probably wouldn’t even be able to bolt the intake and exhaust manifolds on in that case. Someone with experience pulling these engines and heads here should be able to verify this as I have not had to do this personally.
You’re getting flames shooting out the intake like it’s trying to fire on the exhaust stroke. That’s the classic symptom with a distributor-style ignition system when the distributor is rotated 180 degrees out of sync or the wires are connected to the cap in the wrong order. Perhaps you’ve got your intake and exhaust cam sensors swapped? I’m running out of ideas.