[honerboys]

i was thinking something might have dropped down the open #1 fuel injector hole and from there it could have slipped past the intake valve - but from what you described of the noise it sounds like the piston hitting the valve - check the timing marks again - do you know why the car was sitting as it was? - could it have suffered a broken timing belt? - if so the valves could be bent so there would be no way to turn the engine now - i'm not sure about the 32 valve engines but on the 16 valve ones the cam timing marks are sort of hard to see on the back side of the cam pulleys - +1 ^ don't force it