I just did the S13 248 exhaust cam swap on my S14. The car dyno'd at a healthy 141whp before the swap, the 248 was put in with 2.5 degrees advanced (redrilled sproket) and rotated 4 teeth CCW.

After the swap the car started up fine and sounded good. We dynod the car once more and the results were quite dissapointing. The car lost a whole 20whp. It dynod at 121whp.... Wtf?

The only problem we could think of is that when we rotated the cam four teeth CCW we counted the tooth we were on as 1 (one), and counted three over from there. So we opened her back up and moved it one more tooth CCW. Now the car wouldnt even start, intake side was opening way to early.

Anyone that has done the swap have any input on what went wrong? Any ideas what so ever??

Thanks
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now i got this from zilvia and i had this happen to me..so when you say 4 teeth do u mean the spiky teeth or 4 links?? need help asap!!!

 

this is why you stick with the good 'ol 240/248 swap

 

i have never done it.. Big Vin will explain soon what happen.

 

ook

 

what about 5 teeth counter clock or putting the 248 in stock 240 position?do u think that would work?since i jus got my motor back together with no intake on yet i think im goin to test out different tooth setting and turn it by hand and see how it turns out with out bendin vavles

 

anyone

 

but my friend did the same swap 248 intake and exhaust ran fine but today it wouldnt start n sounded like it somethin was getting jammed up when he went to start it n go home..like was gettin caught on somethin or a tooth broke somewhere..?!..would a valve hittin the piston some like that?

 

No, if a valve hit a piston it would be bent or shattered and the engine would no longer run, did you do a full revolution by hand turning the crank pulley?

 

when we turned it by hand it turned ok was a lil tuff spinnin it by crank but we did 2 rev to be sure.then i went to start it ,she almost started but then it stop again like a wrench or somethin was thrown in there..hope a rod didnt break..im soo pissed at my boys car right now.we threw that stock in cam in and still the same results

 

If it still doesn't work with the stock cams, I am sorry to say chances are you have chipped or broke something. Also check the timing chain to make sure it is tight, when I put s13 cams in my s14 I noticed that you could still mount everything back together just fine, but there was enough room in the chain ot be 1 tooth off if you weren't careful, obviously this could cause problems.