Well hopefully your at the end of a long road and you guys can start having fun.
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You could write quite a story about your trials and tribulations.....oh wait, you have.
The good thing about ALLMAG is that they give you a satisfaction guarantee along with a warranty. If’n the cam shows up and you do not like its condition you’ll be able to send it back. When your were looking for cams were you only looking for OEM or did look for some aftermarket street cams ?? The good news is that ALLMAG ships quickly and from what I purchased the parts showed up as advertised.
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I would pull the timing chain cover and check/reset the timing. Since the motor has been run the timing marks on the chain will not line up with those on the sprockets. You can count the links of chain between the crankshaft marks and the cam marks, see picture below for reference, but you might as well pull the chain and realign it with the marks. If you have to rotate anything to get them aligned, then your timing was probably off. If that's the case, a leak down test will tell you if you bent a valve.
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I might be closing in on a happy conclusion. The car is back at the shop that I've referred to a few times in this thread (going on five months now!), and yesterday they confirmed that it is mistimed, and that's causing the P03041 camshaft sensor error. They said it's off by five or six teeth, which they said is about 30 degrees. No concern about a bent valve for now. So I'm going to have them re-time it. Their mechanic said he thought it still sounded like it had a misfire, but that could be the bad timing. If it does, it is significantly less pronounced than the misfire I've tried to solve all this time.
I was so close... I took off the wheel on Saturday morning to open up the timing cover and re-time it myself to see if that was the problem, and then it hit me that I don't have the rented pulley puller to remove the crankshaft pulley I put on there. That's when I decided I just need to stop! By the time I wrote my last post above, on Saturday night, I was just worn out by the whole thing. Now it feels good to know that I was a pulley removal tool away from solving it myself if I had re-done the timing this weekend. But the shop will do it correctly for sure, and they're also going to give me a sense of how serious my leaks are (oil and power steering). I'll update again when they're done, possibly today but more likely tomorrow.
For reference for anyone now or in the future who understands these graphs (I do not), the shop shared these images of their timing check that shows the mistiming. Maybe someone familiar with these readings will get some use out of it as reference at some point.
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