He's good.. he has that writen all over his eng, garage walls and has cheat sheets taped to REV'S collar LOLOL :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

If you're at TDC put the mark on the balancer at 8-12*BTDC then turn your dist until it is phased with the #1 plug post (or that mark you have) on the cap..lock it down and try and start it

lol, ok. I saw it on the cap but hell, I've screwed up and crossed wires before. It's a pain on C2/3 vettes since they route them down and under the manifolds to get to the spark plugs. I got 2 and 4 crossed once and had a hell of a time figuring it out. I double checked wires too. Finally found it after checking yet again.

Those were just proximation photos of rotor and timing marks. As noted I put a Sharpie mark on the distributor and intake to reference where the timing was from the shop. Tried firing it there and tried advancing an retarding in 3-4 small increments (thickness of the Sharpie mark) each way and it didn't want to "catch." Something isn't right, so I retreated. :yes:

Nothing wrong with double checking Wssix I just like picking on him

moving the dist the thickness of a sharpie mark isn't enough

:rofl: Smart A$$

I told the shop 10* initial and that's what it appeared to be. If the distributor is rotated an 1/8" approximately how many degrees is that?

I found it is a little different on every eng, is the dist locked out ?

I was moving it a total 3/8" on each side of the reference point.........not enough possibly?

possibly not. Is it a mech advance dist or is it locked out? Do you have a MSD box?

lol, you weren't kidding. I just went back looking at the other pictures and he does have it written everywhere. Good idea when you don't have it down pat :thumbsup:

Double check spark then advance the crap out of the dist. which is counterclockwise rotation. See if you can get a change in the sound of it cranking to occur. If it back fires, you've gone too far. Looking at the pictures you've shown, unless the cam was very radical, it should have done more than burbled with that timing, IMO.