Timing belt problem

yesterday my car just died on me while i was coming to a stop at the light.... put it in neutral and died.. tried starting..it would crank then would stop when its about to turn over then crank agian .changed the battery cuz it sounded like it was weak and eventually died from trying to start it for a long ass time ..wasnt it. checked to see if timing was off and it was... this motor was just rebuilt with bigger pistons only 158 miles on it.. anyone know how the timing ends up like this??? i just dont want the same problem agian

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I got this in my e-mail.

It's a good question.

Maybe a poll needs to be run around to find out how many people have one carb or another.
I personally don't know much in the way of what specifications are standard in terms of valve timing, overlap, and lift.

I have some ideas to offer.

If any of you wants to help put together some kind of knowledge base regarding performance timing, now might be a good time to help by starting to accumulate data in this thread.

Editing will have to occur. I could do some of that, and probably put some basics out here in this thread, but this kind of has to be a cooperative endeavor or it won't work as a professional reference.

There are a lot of voo-doo theories about what works, and why it works.

Maybe some performance gains are possible, depending on what your goals are with your vehicle.

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