This is an odd situation. I bought this car, thinking that all it needed was the cam timing fixed and the brakes bled. Ive got a few hundred in, and the cam timing still isn't correct.
Anyways, here is the low down. I set the cam timing well enough to drive the car home. #3 wasn't firing due to a bad injector, ignition timing was way off, but I got it home. I fixed the injector, set the ignition timing, yadda yadda yadda, and then finally decided to correct the cam timing.
So I pull the pulleys off, timing cover, etc, figure out the tensioner, and go to line everything up TDC. Turns out, the previous owner put a fidanza cam pulley on the car, and a new timing belt, and set the cam, intermediate shaft, and distributor 180* out. Amazingly, the car ran half decent.
So I embark on the task of setting the crank to TDC according to the timing mark on the bellhousing/flywheel, aligning the intermediate shaft with the dot on the crank, and lining up the cam according to the book, then according to the FAQ on one of the other sites. Now the car barely will turn over, backfires out of the throttle body, and doesn't come close to starting.
Am I missing anything, anything to check or redo? Could the cam pulley be installed 180 out? Anything is appreciated, had the car for 3 weeks, have over 2000 invested, and barely drove it home.