[wastintime]

Herman, lol, I had that same problem with my 912... I was right, the problem was inside the distributor. I just got the 356 to crank about an hour ago! There is a plastic bushing inside the distributor that prevents the spring clip on the points from being grounded out, and it had a crack in it so that the bottom was splitting and letting metal touch, we replaced it, and after an hour of trying to get it to start it cranked up and it ran fine.

whoever installed the webers did it incorrectly so it's a pain in the a$$ to adjust the idle, but I've got them tuned pretty nicely and the car seems to still drive really well. This afternoon we're going to bleed the brakes and give the car back to the owner.

I'm really glad too becuase this was throwing us for a loop and nobody could figure out why the car wouldn't start.

Thanks for the ideas guys.