Variable valve timing

The early ones have camo bucket.

They have VVT on all four cams.

It's a very good architecture.

It just has a few problems.

There's a lot of stuff that needs to get repaired.

removed when you're taking those things out so um you need to you need to have that as a yeah another forethought another cool thing

yeah another cool thing that we we found out is that the later ones that came with vvt actually have bigger cams in them and you can retrofit them to the earlier engines if you don't want the vvt some people just aren't about that life but if you do want the vvt We went from the first engine that we did was a non-VVT engine, bone stock.

And on 24 pounds, it was going 154 in the quarter.

purge the variable valve temps.

You can check out the VVT system, the lock-up solenoid on the transmission.

Look at all the stuff it can do.

And this is on a 24-year-old car.

But I'm wondering if, is there oil pressure still flowing here that's not supposed to? That it's unwanted, but maybe some of our components that we've replaced for the timing are allowing that to happen, okay? So what am I going to do now for the next test? I take the top of the engine off the air duct and the cover and it's a little bit of work.

So I got to the VVT solenoids and I'm just going to unplug them and I'm going to do both.

Could I just do the exhaust? Sure.

But it was enough work to pull everything off, put it back on.

It hit some sort of limiter at 4,000 RPM.

So I did a bunch of research on it, figured out that number one, it was a VVT motor.

Okay.

Variable valve timing.

And so for that motor to be used in a manual transmission, which is an unusual swap anyway.

I had to do some special tuning in there.

And in the process of all of that, I said, I really want to get rid of that cylinder deactivation in the VVT.

So I pulled everything off the top of the motor heads, all of the movable parts that weren't pistons and rods and crankshaft, put new stuff in and I put a new cam in and got rid of all of that stuff.

It's very

clean? It could be, but, you know, VVT is on the passenger side.

Transmission is on the driver's side, right? Right.

Yeah, I think so.

I don't care whether it's a hybrid or a standard ICE engine with, you know, standard automatic transmission.

You put it under load, you're going to flex that drive coupling, that plate, that damper, whatever you want to call it, and it's only going to get louder, right? You might even hear it change pitch if you put it in reverse.

It may put different load on it, right? So, you know, it sounds to me at this point, adding the comment about he thinks it could be VVT and where it's happening.

Yeah, it might be VVT.