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ok cool thanks for your help man, appreciate it. I'll have a crack at the TPS to make sure its right, and see what happens I guess.

Cheers for the help guys. I was actually starting to think it could have something to do with the TPS. And yeah I let it idle while I try and get the timing right. Then I get it at 10 degrees BTDC and give it a rev and thats when it sounds sluggish and generally not right. I'm sure I'm doing the timing right, as everything seems to line up perfectly. I have been reading however that people have their timing advanced a bit and that seems to go ok for them...

Ok so I'm having a fair amount of trouble with the timing of my 4age. It's a bigport (out of a jap 86 apparantly) gone into my adm 86. So, I've spent hours going through old articles on the forums about timing, but I'm still not getting it right. I turn the engine to TDC (0 degrees on the timing marks above the crank pulley) The crank mark lines up, the cam gear marks line up, and the mark on the cam shaft under the oil cap hole is there too. I line the dizzy marks up and put it in. I bridge T and E1 on the ecu as I can't find the diagnostics plug in my loom. I then get the timing to 10 degrees at idle (800rpm ish, when warm) Sounds like I'm doing everything right? but for some reason when I rev the car it sounds very sluggish. As if there is a hesitation between when I turn the throttle and when the engine itself actually revs. I can't really drive it atm as it's not rego'd, so I don't know how it actually goes. When I have the timing set to about 23 degrees-ish without T and E1 bridged the car seems to be a bit more responsive. To be honest I have no idea what's going on haha Hoping someone has any ideas of what problem this could be? Should I just have it set to 23 degrees? It's a stock engine, could this be bad for it? Any help or opinions is greatly appreciated Sorry about the essay, thanks for reading