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I'd be willing to try something too to get to the bottom of the situation. I've been running weeks on the 180 degree differences from manual setting and the car is still running perfectly. Are there identification marks on the motor that will confirm the year/size/model?

Odd Situation - Contradicts Manual Novice, this is how I initially had timing set up and I wasn't even close to starting. Got backfire through the intake and the motor rolled over very inconsistently-- obvious out of time. Now this is the correct setting per manual and I do not doubt the...

Thanks for the pictures. My cam sprockets are mounted on the cams like your pictures so that's good. My crank timing mark is at "T" but instead of the cam gears having "I" ntake and "E"xhaust marks aligned in the center, they are exactly 180 degrees opposite. The I is exactly even with the...

Is it possible someone swapped the motor for a 1.6 before we purchased? Would the 1.6 timing be set the way that I did?

Oh, the crank mark (keyway) was pointing straight up when I assembled. After assembly I noticed the timing mark was at about 2 degrees before top dead center. I know that there is no way the engine will run with cam gears 180 degrees off... so there must be another logical explanation for...

Is the Mazda Protege 5 the same motor we are talking about?

Ok, I'm having an open mind here, but why does the car run perfectly? It runs slightly better than before the head job. It isn't overheating, starts easy. When I had the cams like the manual suggested the engine would not start and backfired through the intake indicating an extremely out of...

You were Right! THANK YOU Jesus Man for posting this information. There is some bad information in the manuals floating around the internet. They all say to put the Intake and Exhaust marks to the center and that is WRONG. I am thankful to have found your posts because I was at my wits end...

More Help needed Please - No Compression still I checked the cam sprockets were aligned properly as I thought. I changed the timing from being 10 degrees before TDC to right at TDC and it didn't help the compression numbers. So I pulled the head. Upon inspecting the head and gasket I...

Oh, I also observed that it takes two full revolutions of the crank pully to make one revolution of a cam gear. I should have known this... the exact definition of a 4 stroke. So with this being the case and replacing a belt that has broken or slipped, how does one know which of the two TDC...

Results Thanks for the input nullbyte, much appreciated. I think you might be onto something with the head or gasket. I took everything apart again last night and changed timing 180 degrees. Now the car barely tries to start but will not. It felt different when I turned the crank pully, I...

oops Dang, Sorry about that. If a moderator sees this and can move it, would you move please? I'll wait a couple hours before re-posting as I know cross posting is frowned upon.

I might be off 180 degrees I am posting a reply to my own message in hopes that it might help someone else in the future. I have scoured the message forum for posts about timing and after about three hours of reading I finally found someone who posted pictures of the cam sprockets for a 2002...

I just changed timing belt on an '02 P5 and had bad information. The manual I had said the I on intake cam should point inward at 3 o'clock position and the E on exhaust side cam should point inward at 9 o'clock position with crank mark pointing upward at the T. Upon reading other posts here I...

Hi, My daughter has a 2002 Protege5 with 118,000 miles on it. She called me and said the car died. It lost power slowly and then died. She recalled seeing some smoke which I thought might have been from overheating because the engine compartment was still quite hot by the time I got there...