Well we got everything ready to go into the car. Everything matched up just fine. The C4 bellhousing and the motor mounts bolted right up. The Hooker headers were a bit of a pain..but they were with the old motor too. We went with MSD ignition and after getting all the electrical wired up we filled all the fluids Tranny, Engine and Radiator. Now for the mount of thruth..My son gets in the car and turns it over. all we get is a bunch of back firing and flame out the carb...we go over everything and figure out we have the firing order right but going clockwise on the dist cap instead on counter clockwise. We got that straightened out and by that time it was pretty flooded. The next evening we were able to get back to it. So with the correct firing order 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8 and the plugs on the cap going in the right direction we gave it another try. Better but still not running. We change the timing from one side to the other and finnaly we get it running. I put a timing light on it and it's not even on the scale..I think the 50 oz harmonic balancer that we got fron the junkyard is set for a car with the pointer on the passenger side and we needed one with the scale on the drivers side..no biggie..it runs very smooth with a nice lop..we are still dialing it in. But are very happy with how it's turned out to this point. with about 100 miles on it now we still have atleast 400 miles to go before we can see how much power it really has!
Tony
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