[RetroSC]

Allright, here's the results from today's testing. First, started with the fuel idea. Routed around the regulator and gauge setup, but not the filter (Warren, I purshased this filter from Pelican and it's 5/16 size just like all the other fittings so I think it's appropriate). Anyway, still no luck. I know I stated earlier that it would rev fine under no load, but that was not totally correct. Testing today proved that it indeed does not. I can get up to maybe 5K or so, but that's really it. Anything above 4.5K and it's all sputtering and missing. Kind of like a rev limitor... actually, just like a rev limitor come to think of it. Hmmmm! My rotor's a 7300rpm, do these ever malfunction? Maybe I'll mess with that a bit, I think I've got a 6500 one I'll put in there just to test.

Anyway, back to the other strange happenings. Checking the timing, I noticed I can't get it to idle at 5degrees. I have to keep it set at 10 or so and that seems to work great in the low revs. Revving it up though, I noticed it's around 40+ degrees at 4K. No pinging or detonation though. I did get it back to arond 7 or so at idle while tuning it on the fly, but if I shut it down and tried to restart it wouldn't even try to fire. Totally dead as I cranked it over! Move the distributor a bit and she fires right up, but again the timing is in the 10 degree range.

Am I looking at the crank pully right? I've got the mark's at Z1 which are clearly labeled. TDC right? Then I've got a set at what would correspond to 5, at exactly 5mm to the right of the Z1. Then two sets at what measure out to be 30 and 33mm from the Z1. I'm assuming those are 30 degrees. Like I said earlier, at 4K it's about 10 degrees past those!

So it appears the distributor is advancing properly, but why won't it run at 5 degrees? Could my cam timing be off and making everything else out of wack?