Re: Let's assume I'm not a complete moron-for a minute

[Fltrplntman@domain.elided]

Ok, lets do a little reviewing here. You said you put a great effort in 
working on this engine. Good for you. Most people would start to lose 
ambition after the first few stages of a rebuild. My first question is, Did 
you have the heads rebuilt? If so, were they trued by flycutting the face of 
the head. ( Truing due to some minor warpage maybe?) It maybe that one one 
head was trued up. ( rear bank only?) The reason that I mention this is that 
if too much was shaved off the head the 10 or so thousandths removed will 
lower the centerline of the cam toward the block. This will change the  the 
valve timing by a few degrees by moving the cam sprocket down the timing 
belt. Either retarding or advancing depending on which way the cam rotation 
is. The fix would be to find how much was removed and use a thicker head 
gasket to compensate for the loss. 
       I had run into this problem before on a overhead cam 4 cyl, not of 
Alfa make. I hope this gets you more focused on what might be your problem. 
So far, it sounds like the culprit. Good luck and keep me posted. 
Tim Timko
88 Milano Platinum ( For Sale)

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