360 engine rebuild

Guys, I’m buying a 2000 360 that’s quite a mess. Low compression on one half and timing codes. My plan is to pull the motor and tear it down for rebuild. I own a repair facility and will be having my master tech do most of the work but would love someone with technical experience in this area. Can anyone recommend a place that could give guidance on machine work, valve and spring upgrades (if it’s necessary), degreeing the cams, etc?

I own a 348 and we just spent a year restoring that including an engine out. We have never messed with a 360 though. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

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Thanks guys. I’d assumed that if the belt jumped it would have dinged a valve. I’m surprised to hear it can skip that much and not cause interference. We will certainly check that before pulling the engine. I haven’t gotten the car yet so I’m not sure the answers to these questions. I was just planning for the worst. As far as variators go, looks like (from limited research) you have to pull the exhaust cam? This is an early car and I do not know if they have been changed.

 

Well I got the 360 delivered and now it does not start. According to the seller, the car started and ran for about 20 minutes in anticipation of the delivery truck. It was turned off and now will not start. As I said, we have some work to do with this car and were going to do a leak down test and compression test. I would like to have some input on common crank no start issues. I am not familiar with the 360 at all so those of you that are could really give some guidance. The engine turns over as well as I would expect it to. It doesn't sound like a vehicle that has no compression, but we have not checked that yet. In fact, we have not relay checked anything yet. I thought the immobilizer was causing a problem but after a little research, I am not sure. When you hit the button on the red remote you can see the light to the left of the wheel blink quickly for a while then set into a normal blinking pattern as the car is locked. There is no chime, however. If you hit the button again, the light goes away and again, no chime. You turn the key with foot on the brake and check ok come us with the triangle light and crank, crank, crank with nothing. It will not sputter or even try to start. The fact that it doesn't even try tells me its most likely something universal to both banks. We will check fuel, spark and compression but I wanted to know if anyone had something simple to check first. As you all know, this car is vastly different than my 348 and I am learning everything for the first time. I know this question is very broad but before we put too much time into "normal" crank no start diag, I thought I would ask for some "common" things to look for. TIA

 

Thanks. My 348 has two of everything. Does the 360 have two fuel pumps, two circuits for everything, etc?

 

Thanks for the help. Found the problem today. There was no fuel pressure on the passenger side bank. Swapped the fuel pump relays and the car fired up. Did not run well at all. Some of that was the be expected but this was bad. Swapped the bad relay with the ac relay and it fired up and ran as I expected. I am surprised that the single fuel pump working didn’t make it cough or anything but it did not. Now we can get back to checking into our running problem. I’m sure I’ll have more questions. Thanks guys.