ok heres the story i had the stock 305 carb in my car had a new tranny built, put that in and the car would shift at 5000 and had decent power but started knocking so i bought a 350 block put in new crank and pistons, holley systemax kit with intake and cam, new heads with 3 angle valve job, edelbrock 600 carb, and headers. got it running but didnt seem right, (wouldnt rev above 3500 rpm's and acted like a limiter. so i took it to the guy that helped me with building the shortblock and he, adjusted valves-nothing, new carb-nothing,new fuel pump-nothing, checked all fuel lines-nothing tried new distributer-nothing, checked all exhaust nothings plugged(headers, y-pipe, hollowed cat, 2 and a half inch pipe, flowmaster muffler)-still nothing. any ideas? my only other idea is the timing on the chain being a tooth off. also checked torque converter.

 

where is your timing set ???

 

I have been having the same problem with my car, does it revv high if you manually shift? drop it into first and see how high it will rev , mine shifts right at 3000 no matter how hard I hit the gas if I put it drive. I would think it would be a transmission problem.I went ahead and put a B&M shifter in and now I just manually shift it.

 

well i tore the timing cover off today and it was like 3 teeth off. not sure how i screwed that one up in the begginning but i did. anyways got it all back together but cant get the distributer in the correct place yet. it was making me mad so thats why im now on the computer. lol.

 

get a long screwdriver and turn the shaft on the oilpump until you can drop the dist. it the right position. Easy as pie.

 

i finally got the distributer pump in last night and got it running. holy sh*t this thing is friggan fast. thanks for the advice