loosing sleep over my 1998 454 -compcams timing issue

[L31Sleeper]

Keep in mind on these engines the distributor position has NOTHING to do with engine timing.
It's sometimes difficult for people to get their head around that.

[schwoch1]

Keep in mind on these engines the distributor position has NOTHING to do with engine timing.
It's sometimes difficult for people to get their head around that.

Yep.... some people still are thinking back in the stone ages. "Back when I was a kid in the old days, when you turned the distributor, it changed the timing!!!"
This system just looks at the cam and crank sensor, and figures out where the spark needs to be, within reasonable mechanical and electronic limits!!! All timing on this engine/ computer system is computer controlled, all the distributor does is route the spark where it needs to go!!!

any ways are you having a dtc p1345 an can it be eliminated by efilive reprograming

yah, use the scanner and moniter the pid for cam/crank error and turn the distributor (while above 1100RPM) until the error is 0 degrees (+or - 2 degrees). Just don't go and shut the code off, that will get you nowhere!!!

Hope this helps
Mike

[L31Sleeper]

As far as Comp Cams is concerned it's just another big block roller cam, but I'm starting to think
that the cam gear needs to be indexed. A friend of mine has the exact same engine and could
not get the offset correct, after about 10 stabs of the distributor he gave up. It was a situation
where one tooth in either direction is too much.