Issue when creating a Project with a specific Template

Issue when creating a Project with a specific Template

I have been using this api in php to create Projects using templates that have already been made. However when I try to create a project with a certain template, I get a 204 response and the project is not created. I am able to use this template in Postman and I am able to use other templates in php, just not this specific one. This is the most complex template with about 20 tasks and many blocking tasks. Is the process simply timing out? Please help. 

      $params = [
            'name' => 'TEST Project', 
            'description' => 'Test Project', 
            'start_date' => date('m-d-Y'),
            'owner' => USER_ID, 
            'template_id' => TEMPLATE_ID, 
            'group_id' => GROUP_ID,
      ];  

       $headers[] = "Authorization: ". $tokenType . " " . $accessToken;

        $projectsCurl = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($projectsCurl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($projectsCurl, CURLOPT_URL, $requestUrl);
        curl_setopt($projectsCurl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
        curl_setopt($projectsCurl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
        curl_setopt($projectsCurl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($params));
        curl_setopt($projectsCurl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0); 
        curl_setopt($projectsCurl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60); //timeout in seconds
        $response = curl_exec($projectsCurl);
        $response_info = curl_getinfo($projectsCurl);