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Adaptation after T-belt

Luvn737s
in 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX

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I've put about 400 miles on my car (98 Forester) after changing the Timing Belt. Every mark was right on before I buttoned it up and when I first started it, it fired off immediately. Now, however I am noticing that cold starts take a few more cranks to fire off and there is some slight hesitation on acceleration

until it warms up. Warm starts are fine.

 

Could the ECU have masked a problem with the timing until the engine adapted to the off-time condition, or would any mistakes have shown up immediately?

 

My original problem was a tight exhaust valve in #4 cylinder. That took 122K miles to show up. I wonder if the same problem has come up on another cylinder at 122.4K.

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