K20 timing fault


dan22h

dan22h

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Last week I purchased an ep3 for £700 with the intention of stealing the engine and gearbox for my Lotus due to it putting a conrod through the side of the block on a track day last Friday. Now the car came with the engine management light on and a lack of vtec issue, I've since scanned the car and pulled a fault code for camshaft position sensor as below
P0341- camshaft position sensor (G40) implausible signal
So far I've ruled out a faulty cam position sensor, and narrowed it down to the inlet sensor flagging the fault code. After checking online i've found similar cases where a stretched timing chain was found to be the cause, has anyone on here experienced this before?

Here's the car the engine will be getting fitted to
 
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Yes that is the usual cause mate, very common. You can get them from where I work (Tegiwa), I'd only go with Genuine Honda as there are some horror stories about the cheaper chains on ebay etc.

Good plan btw, I had an S2 I was going to convert but never got round to :)

Matt
 
You could manually check the timing or pull the casings off and check tensioner extension
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Thanks for the advice, I'm away from home for a few weeks so I just wanted to get an idea of where to start when I get back. I'm wanting to get the engine fully running before I take it out the civic so I know it should be good when it goes in the elise, not just my bad wiring etc. Are there any reputable companies that sell the genuine timing chain outside of the Honda stealers?
 
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Either the above or have a word with R-motion, Dan - get yourself a nice heavy duty tct in aswell.
 
Had an ep3 and it had the common light fault due to timing belt,never had any issues with mine not vtec'n tho
 
Wazer said:
Either the above or have a word with R-motion, Dan - get yourself a nice heavy duty tct in aswell.
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I would stick with oem tensioner, it should last the rest of the life of a standard k20a2.

Some heavy duty tensioners have a stiffer spring which can cause damage by over tensioning the chain, stretching it or wearing the guides and the cam bearings,

It's the ratcheting teeth on the oem tensioner that fail when the edges round up slightly on them
 
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I got mine from jap service parts, were cheapest place at the time for oem parts by about £50
Also i done the guides while i was there,
Should be able to do it in place, you can on a dc5 anyway,
Heres the links
http://japserviceparts.co.uk/civic/...-civic-integra-ep3-dc5-k20a-timing-chain.html

http://japserviceparts.co.uk/civic/...c-integra-ep3-dc5-timing-chain-tensioner.html

http://japserviceparts.co.uk/civic/...n-guide-kit-civic-type-r-k20-ep3-fn2-dc5.html
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Great links for timing chain and tensioner :nice:
 
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