I just recently swapped an lt1 into my 1992 camaro. i carbed it. yeah yeah i dont want to hear it, i know people keep saying to keep it fuel injected. well anyways i had one of the spark plug wires unhooked without knowing it and i started it and it drove around and backfired a lot. and then i popped the hood and i found the spark plug unplugged i then plugged it in and i tryed starting it, it fired up and then it died... i have know clue what has happend it was running fine before i plugged it back in. has anyone had this happen? im going to mess with it today and see if i can fix it. my questions are if that spark plug wasnt firing would that cylinder be flooded? does that affect the way it starts?.. I know it might be a timing issue, i just recently took the distributor off.

 

See if you are getting spark, enough fuel, maybe re-adjust the timing with a timing gun. Hard to say, its weird it just died shortly after hooking up the plugwire. Double-check everything even simple stuff like plug wires going to the correct cylinders.

 

Thanks for the reply I just checked all those things took me awhile but I retimed it just to make sure and it still wouldn't start so I checked for spark. There was spark. I should have checked the fuel line to th carb because I wouldn't have had to do anything. There was no fuel getting to the carb. But there was fuel in the fuel filter so I didn't think of it. Lol so I was out of gas. I feel retarded now for posting it.

 

Don't worry about it, been there. Sometimes when you have really weird stuff going on it ends up being something really simple causing the problem.

 

Not like you're the first one who's done that.

Glad it was something simple.