Fixed!!
FYI The coil pack harness gets a lot heat, the wiring insulation had broke off in places causing shorts to ground. Happened when I moved it around pulling plugs.

Ok just replaced head, timing is correct. I have fuel and compression but zero spark. Any ideas?

Ok I set the crank and the back of the cams rotated the gears as far clockwise as I could, put the belt on and still no good. No interference but will not start and cranks over like its still out of time. Any suggestions?

Great i will give it a try today and let you know. thanks so much for your help.

So basically set the crank and cams, rotate gears clockwise til vvt stop. throw on the belt and your good to go?

My cam tool is an aftermarket, that holds the cam straight across in the back, so that the grooves are inline with each other, when then cam postion cups are on, the intake is facing toward the front, and exhaust is facing toward rear of car. Is this right?

No I don't have that procedure. Do you have it? Or can you give me a breif run down of it?

All the plugs were out, its hitting valves. With the back of the cams lined up with a cam tool, I can not get the front hash marks to line up. If i rotate the cam gears clockwise to the internal stop(vvt stops). the hash marks are about three teeth clockwise to where they should be. Its been apart b...

Ive got the cams straight and locked and pretty sure [YouTube][/YouTube]i have the crank in the right mark. when i put the belt on and try to rotate the engine, the valves hit. where am i going wrong? 2004 t5 with vvt on both cams and no i have no had the cam gears off.