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Have had both a jumped belt and a timing sensor failure. Jumped belt will still run, just sluggish, low power, runs out of steam about 5000-5500 rpm. Did two track days with the jumped belt, before YT figured out what was wrong. Replaced both my pre-Cats before the diagnosis was made. Got passed by everyone, but no permanent damage.
Bad cam sensor is much worse. Probably can't keep it running at all, even at idle. I tried to keep mine going with generous use of the accelerator and set the elastomeric Cat hangers on fire. Needless to say, the main Cat was toasted and starting spitting pieces of matrix out the exhaust tips shortly thereafter.
So, the difference is that with a skipped belt, depending upon how many teeth, it will still run, just poorly. With a dead cam sensor, you won't be able to get to the end of the block.
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