SSunset
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Chevy 350 early 80s crate motor, 240hp 9/1 compression nothing special.
HEI Distrubutor
Timing set at 10 degrees BTDC according to the mark on the balancer, lined up the tower with #1 spark plug to the rotor(which was point toward the #1 cylinder)
typical GM Firing order 18436572, double and triple checked them.
Brand new Edelbrock 600 cfm carb, plenty of fuel at the carb.
It has a vaccum advance on the distributor that I've plugged, and both ports for vaccum advance have caps on the carb. I have read it's easier to just plug them when trying to figure out initial startup.
Compression
D --------- P
1 110 2 - 120
3 100 4 - 120
5 90 6- 120
7 100 8 - 120
Confirmed spark is getting to the plug.
New plug wires, old ones had zero resistence new ones are ok.
Video of what it's doing when I try to start it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyuT1_PjaBE
I'm sure I'm missing something dumb, because this is my first attempt at old school technology.
HELP!
HEI Distrubutor
Timing set at 10 degrees BTDC according to the mark on the balancer, lined up the tower with #1 spark plug to the rotor(which was point toward the #1 cylinder)
typical GM Firing order 18436572, double and triple checked them.
Brand new Edelbrock 600 cfm carb, plenty of fuel at the carb.
It has a vaccum advance on the distributor that I've plugged, and both ports for vaccum advance have caps on the carb. I have read it's easier to just plug them when trying to figure out initial startup.
Compression
D --------- P
1 110 2 - 120
3 100 4 - 120
5 90 6- 120
7 100 8 - 120
Confirmed spark is getting to the plug.
New plug wires, old ones had zero resistence new ones are ok.
Video of what it's doing when I try to start it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyuT1_PjaBE
I'm sure I'm missing something dumb, because this is my first attempt at old school technology.
HELP!
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