Ok i have a holley street dominator intake and my vac advance is hitting it........could i make turn it back a couple teeth? or do i have to completely spin the dist and rotor 180 degrees.

You can place the dist. in any position you want as long as you maintain the correct firing order.

Instead of removing the distributor and installing it a couple of teeth off, you can move all the plug wires back one hole and have another 45° of timing to play with. The result is the same.

Ok so I should just move them all over one counter clockwise? makes since I guess I have to remove the distributer again anyways.....forgot the gasket.

VADER??? which way? I moved #1 plug to the right (counter clockwise when looking straight at it) then i turned the distributer quiet a bit clockwise. and it wont start. battery is running low so im gonna have to get it charged again. Let me know if i did that right vader.

You did it right. You getting any popping from it at all?

popping? from the exhaust? alittle but i have 89 octane in it and 9.6:1 with the timing at 12 with the vac disconnected. when reconnected it goes up more of course. so i need to get some 93 octane when i make sure the car is gonna run.

Just start all over like you had just put the engine in for the first time, get #1 Cyl. on TDC on the compression stroke and then remove the dist. cap and make a referance mark as to where the rotor is pointing and then make sure #1 spark plug tower is lined up with that mark when you try to start the engine, it should fire right up. Then use a timing light to get it where you want it.

its in time now. the car runs but it runs out of gas because the fuel pump doesnt stay on.

actually the pump wont come on at all now. I jumped some wires on the relay and it sparked and that was all she wrote. for a second it worked like i needed it to tho. now i get nothing.,

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