Megan the Merlot M edition

[Senor_Taylor]

Checked the ignition timing and it's perfect at 10 degrees. Then I pulled the valve cover to check the timing belt and holy butts was it bad. I'm not sure how the car was even running from the looks of this timing. I tried my best to get it retimed with 3 sets of hands and without tearing down the whole engine down to the crank pulley and I got it timed to what looks "correct" but it ended up being off by 4 degrees at the crank after the belt tensioned up. I didn't realize until after I had gotten it mostly back together so I decided to just see if it ran. Anything had to be better than what it was before. Buttoned it all up, turn the key, and it won't start, not even a little. Is 4 degrees really that bad?

Here's a picture of it when I first took the valve cover off.