I am new to this forum, so forgive my mistakes.

I purchased my '84 Camaro late last year and have been working on it as time and money becomes available. It has, I am told, a 383 or 390 stroker using a 350 block and many performance parts. But some of the work done on the car is sorta shoddy.

I just overhauled the Holly 750 carb and installed a timing tab, which was missing. I resurfaced the harmonic balancer and painted the timing line white. Well I hooked my old 1970's timing light to cyl #1 and found no timing mark with the car running. I rotated the flamethrower distributor as far each way as it would rotate and still found no timing mark. As I rotated the distributor counter clockwise the engine speed increased till the distributor would rotate no further. I went to the passenger side of the engine and found the timing mark just at or past the passenger side head. I'm confused! Is there another location for the timing tab besides just inbound of the driver side head, cyl #1, or is something else wrong. I am sure that the harmonic balancer is keyed to the crank with a woodruff or half moon key, or should be.

I really need help from someone with more experience on Chevy engines than I.