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Hey Paul. Was this you and your aging eyes? blind corner.mp4

Just looks like an old belt, to me. Certainly time to change it. But if it were really rubbing, it would be far more badly damaged. That just looks like the scuffing from the crank guide. Aisin tensioner, Mitsuboshi belt, and Koyo or NSK idlers only for me.

Rod knock comes from connecting rods, not pushrods. EJ251 is not a rotary engine, so they absolutely do have rods.

Timing tensioner - heat is soaking the hydraulic mechanism. Get it hot snd making the noise and then rev it in park with the timing covers off you’ll see it slapping around Inner axle cv joints. usually there’s considerable vibration - like the rear view mirror is shaking if it’s as bad as you describe. And it’s more prominent under load - accelerating or just driving up a hill.

This ended up being a wheel bearing.

Yeah about 35 years ago my buddy gave me big balls because those halogens were new and first thing I did was grab the bulb not the plate. That bulb did work and lasted plenty long. But I can still hear him .... Agreed , too many spikes. And too many morons driving past twilight with only their DRL’s on.

Update Got wheel alignment. As its all new, took a stab at it. not bad out come on the machine. Only .5 out on camber and caster sweet. Just added a bit of toe out. Not bad for a couple of amateurs. Next and what a great day. Finally got it to the track. Big smile on my face , and off we went. All the positive feed back, people loved it, loved the concept. And old girl brought back to life. Car looks sweet at the track. So much room in the cabin. So easy to use. just the thought we put into setting things up made things so easy to operate. So first run (other than up the cowshed track the other day) Car brakes straight, turn in, even for a mid engine car was surprisingly pretty good. Slight ride height needed on front. just a small rub on outer guard. Bu,. and yes but We had a problem. The car for some reason would not run very well over 3000-4000 rpm. It would miss fire, cut out with too much throttle ? So I played with the fuel pressure a bit. Good note, the oil pressure stayed over 90 psi through corners. Plus But as a new build I spent my time looking at oil pressure and then water temp. Temp didn't get over 59 degrease. But because it wasn't revving to high ? And then I looked at the boost problem. Seamed to be spiking up and down under boost ? Under very little throttle it would run up to say 5000 rpm but then would cut out, After that I would get no throttle response until I changed down a gear? Don't even think its getting to the 2nd turbo? What's your thoughts Boost cut? Anyway, that's what you get from a new build. Even the new Rx8 beside me had problems. K swapped turbo, running up to 600 hp on fuel boost only running 400hp over heating. But that's another story . Still loved driving it. its so cool

the EA82 dist into EA81 involved retaining EA81 dist drive cog to install on EA82 dist in it's correct position, chop the excess off below drive cog and chop a hold down ear. That is all I recall reading. Sounds like a plan to retain all the spfi and let it run on EA81. The spfi manifold touches the EA81 block casings so trim some meat off underside of spfi intake manifold, in a dry fit no gasket, no gasket goo dry fit first