Thread: I need help with my engine. It won`t start!!!!

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hey it mite be the firing order 18436572

Thank you very muck for your support everybody!! The distributor was 180 degrees off, and the battery was allmost dead!! I got a new starter, and hooked it up with my other car, and it started easily!! Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. If i am gonna need any further help, i will be sure who to rely on!!

And one mor thing, this is my very first and hopefully not last engine change, ever since i`m 18, and wanna be a mechanic, it`s very exciting.I personally love the loudness of the car right now, just with the headers, without any piping, cats or anything else. It sounds beautiful. I love it. Now i have to leave the engine running, in order to get all the fluids in, and to get a new alternator and water pump, and i`m set. Guess what happened when I tried to steer it for the first time with the new engine running? The steering hose blew up and spayed steering fluid all over my other car!! I got another one, fixed that too. Now things are looking really promising!! After i`m done with manufacturing the exhaust and fixing the gas pedal, the car is ready to run!!! I hope that in a couple of days, the car will be ready for the first test drive!! I`ll fill you in on that!!

Glad we could help.

Most of us had it figured to being 180 out. A very common thing to do on your first engine change. Heck, I've done it on many more.

Experience causes you to check further. Don't take that the wrong way. You got to do it to learn and that's a good thing.

At least you got it fixed. That is the only way I learn is if something breaks and I have to find out what it is and fix it so then next time me or a friend has a problem and my friend tells me what his car/truck/dirt bike is doing I will know what it is. Keep having problems and having everyone here solve them so you guy's can teach me at the same time haha.

Glad you got it running in time for school. I know how it is when your young with your first car especially one you built the engine yourself. Keep it going.

Thank you for your support and appreciacion everyone!!

I took the Cutlass Out for a test drive and it runs like a dream. I drove her to my mechanic and he adjusted some screws and stuff, so now i`m ready to roll. One more thing, I drove to my mechanics place without the hood on because the alternator sticks out and I can`t close it, so 2 cops stopped me for noise pollution and because of the hood. And I also abused it a bit ever since I got a new differential too. I burned tyres until there were sparks coming from the rims(there was no more rubber to burn). Now I know what my dad told me when I was still in romania "Hell Son, there ain`t nothing better than the sound and performance of the Old American Muscle Cars!!!!". Thank You everyone