All the timing figures you gave earlier were timing relative to CAM POSITION. This is why everyone though they were strange. Timing relative to TDC should always be read from the crank pulley. Equally when you say that your cam is at TDC, this doens't make any sense. A cam doesn't have a TDC. Pistons connnected to the crank do go up and down and therefore have a top dead center. Cam is usually timed by haveing the #1 inlet valve at full lift some 110 degrees after the crank has passed its TDC.