Explain how that's possible on our motors please. Because I'm not aware of it being possible.
When you line up the cam and balance shaft, then line up the cam and crank. The cam to crank is what's important. That's what keeps the pistons from hitting the valves. This isn't a distributor motor where you can have anything 180 off if the dots line up. The HB has a key and that tells the pcm when to fire a cylinder. But I've never seen ignition timing bend rods either.
The pistons are going to have marks or be cracked in this motor. Head pulling needs to happen IMO.
Sorry B.. I don't understand how this could happen if the marks on the cam and crank were always lined up. Do you have a picture that you can post/repost of the marks lining up?