Timing chain slack

[yhp2009]

Same chain slack for me as all others have said. I did mine over a year ago and 5000+ miles later no issues and passes vanos test. I also had a very small discrepancy which i tried my best to minimize. But at the end of the day the ECU corrects the tiny difference by adjusting itself.

[sapote]

That makes sense, my timing on exhaust side is still almost 1mm off before retarding cams.

OK, as I just pointed out how to set the timing for each cam to avoid being damaged (hitting pistons) at high rpm in my other thread. It is more safe (not performance) to have zero or a little EX cam advanced, and zero or little IN cam retarded. With this in mind, I think you should individually adjust the cams timing instead of adjust them both with same amount by setting the crank retard. Here is my suggestion:

At the beginning:
* set and lock the crank at TDC
* loosen hub bolts and set the cams using the bridge/pin, so that the IN cam is timed with 0.5mm gap on head, and 2mm gap for EX cam. The gap is on the head exhaust side.
* do the remain steps as before.

[maupineda]

You really needed another thread on the same matter? Are you even listening?

[Cubieman]

You really needed another thread on the same matter? Are you even listening?

I thought so just so I could get this thing together and forget about it. I realize that this was somewhat redundant, I most definitely see your point.
I am most definitely listening and appreciate yours and everyone else's advice.
I hadn't much experience with this so if it meant briefly littering a forum and yielding a few more useful bits of information I suppose I was willing to do that. I am sorry if that was a bit much for some of you, I understand.